Billboard Magazine February 20, 2016

You must understand the
difference between
urgent” and “important”

LUCIAN GRAINGE
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POWER

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time as UMG dominates the market
(again), Live Nation rules the concert
business, Apple blows up streaming
and 39 new faces storm the list

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POWER

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time as UMG dominates the market
(again), Live Nation rules the concert
business, Apple blows up streaming
and 39 new faces storm the list

February 20, 2016 1 billboard.com

‘Be careful
not to breathe your
own exhaust’

JIMMY IOVINE
Executive, Apple

Competition? Bring it. It’s major macher
time as UMG dominates the market
(again), Live Nation rules the concert
business, Apple blows up streaming
and 39 new faces storm the list

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Photographed by Christopher Patey on Jan. 21
at Universal Music in Santa Monica.

Photographed by Smallz + Raskind on Jan. 21
at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.

Photographed by Amanda Friedman on
Jan. 20 at The Culver Hotel in Culver City.

HERE’S A POINT IN THE PROCESS OF RANKING
the Power too list, usually after the third meeting
— sometime in late September — when an editor
complains that his or her candidates are not
being held in the proper regard and all the candy
and caffeine in the world (and in my office) can’t
save the mood. But it is also how it should be.

The best I can say about the Power too is that it
is a true collaborative effort, and that we approach
every year as a clean(ish) slate. In 2015, there were
31 new executives on the list; this year, 39 more have
entered the Billboard Power 100.

The turnover is not just because earthquake-level events
like Adele’s record catapult associated parties onto and up the
list, but also because sometimes, all of a sudden, everything
clicks for a company or executive. The music industry is in the
process of re calibration and reorganization, and it stands to
reason our list would be too.

The top three are so closely bunched, each deserved a
cover of his own. As far as ranking them, Universal’s Lucian
Grainge had seven of the top 10 best-selling releases of the
year, he owns nearly 40 percent market share, and all five best

album Grammy nominees are his acts. Live Nation’s Michael
Rapino has an even greater share of the touring market and
writes the biggest checks to artists. And Jimmy Iovine and the
Cupertino, Calif., gang pushed through a fraught Apple Music
launch, partnered with superstars from Drake to
Elton John on Beats 1 radio and continue to dominate
retail. They are wildly different personalities, but
their love of music and their protection of artists is
in lockstep. In a top 10 filled with true industry
heavyweights, they are still a class unto themselves.
After careful consideration, Grainge finishes first for
a second straight year because, in my eyes, his power is fueled
by the creation of the material that powers the industry. Music
can live without streaming, and music can even live without
touring, but music cannot live without music.

Enjoy the issue.

[the rules of power]

"Always deliver
bad news
personally."

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hits No. 1, instantly
topping the chart
success of his former
band, One Direction.

Zayn Outdoes
One Direction
With No. 1 Debut

Z AYN GOES WHERE HIS FORMER BANDMATES
haven’t: to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot too, as his debut
solo single, “Pillowtalk,” debuts at the top of the chart.
The track from the former One Direction member also
bows at No. 1 on the Digital Songs and Streaming Songs charts,
with 267,000 first-week U.S. downloads and 22.3 million U.S.
streams in the week ending Feb. 4, according to Nielsen Music.

“Pillowtalk” is just the 25th song to debut at No. 1 in the Hot
100’s 57-year history. With it, Zayn bests the chart peak of One
Direction, whom he left on March 25, 2015 (his debut solo album,
Mind of Mine, is due on the one-year anniversary of his depar-
ture). While he was in the group, lD tallied four Hot 100 top 10s,
rising as high as No. 2, with “Best Song Ever” in 2013. Since Zayn
left, the group has landed two more top 10s: “Drag Me Down”
and “Perfect.”

As a former boy bander crowning the Hot 100 with his first
charted solo single, Zayn is in elite company. Michael Jackson
and Justin Timberlake have led the list, but Zayn is the first such
artist to rule with a Hot 100 debut since George Harrison, whose
“My Sweet Lord”/“lsn’t It a Pity” reigned in 1970, following the
split of The Beatles. -garytrust

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GRANGER

SMITH

Backroad

Song

Your debut hit is titled “Backroad Song.”

Is it true that you test out your music while
driving the back roads of Texas?

Yeah. It's kind of nerdy, but I actually get in
mytruck, put the computer on my console
and drive around. This is where my songs
are intended to live, so why not? Instead of
guessing at my desk how it will feel with
the windows down, I just take my computer
along forthe ride.

Is that how you came up with this song?

I was seeing success with these feel-good,
easily digestible songs that had references
to back roads. So I thought, "Hey, I'll just

write a song called "Backroad Song.' " It's
about living in the moment: We've got the
windows down and it feels good, no matter
what's really going on in our lives. Skip all the
appetizers and salad and get straight to the
main course.

You put out several albums independently
before signing with Wheelhouse Records
last year. It must be funny when people
refer to you as a “new artist.”

It is, but it happens all thetime now. I don't
take offense at all. I kind of enjoy it because it
means that I've officially graduated.

-PHYLLIS STARK

The Dallas-bred
singer hits the
Hot lOOforthe
first time and also
reaches No. 2 on
Country

G-Eazy earns hisfirst Hot 100
top 10 and Rexha her second,
following her featured turn (with
Nlcki Minaj and Afrojack) on
David Guetta's "Hey Mama,"
which hit No. 8 in June 2015.

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69

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70

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71

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DNCE, the pop band fronted
by Joe Jonas, darts 18-14 on
the Billboard Hot 100 with
its debut single, "Cake by the
Ocean." The song also reaches
a milestone on the Mainstream
Top 40 radio airplay chart, where
it hits the top 10 (11-10). "It's
been a six-month process of
introducing the DNCE brand,"
says Republic president Charlie
Walk. The airplay achievement
follows the quartet's cameo as
Johnny Casino & The Gamblers in
Fox's Grease: Live (Jan. 31), which
included a 1950s-style version
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FEATURES

55 The 2016 Power 100 Who runs
the music biz today? According
to label chiefs, tech superstars,
mega-promoters, super-managers
and 39 (!] first-timers on Billboard’s
annual list, it’s all about the fans.
Plus: executives on the people,
places and things that inspire them
and a preview of some fast-rising
contenders for next year’s list.

THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

26 Maurice White [1941-2016): The late
founder and bandleader of Earth,
Wind & Fire is remembered by his
brother Verdine White and singer
Philip Bailey.

7 DAYS ON THE SCENE

30 Parties Super Bowl 50, NAACP
Image Awards

THE BEAT

37 Sam Smith, Lady Gaga,

Diane Warren and the other

5 Zayn Malik zooms in at No. 1 talent up for the best original song

with “Pillowtalk.” award at the Oscars come together

for a Billboard portrait and put

topline competition aside to discuss the

PHOTOGRAPHED BY AUSTIN HARGRAVE

As artists rally the youth vote for
Bernie Sanders, most music
executives pledge support for
Hillary Clinton.

After two tumultuous years and
a splashy $260 million IPO, a look
inside SFX’s bankruptcy filing.

THIS WEEK

Volume 128 /No. 5

Diane Warren (left) and
Lady Gaga photographed
Feb. 8 at The Beverly
Hilton in Los Angeles. For
a podcast of the group
of Oscar nominees
revealing the writing
process behind each
oftheir hit songs
and a behind-the-scenes
video from the shoot, go
to Billboard.com
or Billboard.com/iPad.

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inspirations behind their tracks.

42 Veteran director Benny Boom
opens up about the anticipated
Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez
on Me.

44 Mick Jagger’s son James spills on
his punk-rocker role on HBO’s Vinyl.

STYLE

49 Clive Davis shares stories
[Whitney, Aretha and Alicia]

and rooms with views at his
17-acre Westchester County
estate in New York.

CHARTS

98 Coldplay is set for a big gain after
its energetic performance at the
Super Bowl.

CODA

132 In 1986, Bon Jovi turned “Living on a
Prayer” into an anthem.

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MUSICIANS FOR BERNIE!
EXECS FOR HILLARY?

ARTISTS FROM THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS TO KILLER MIKE
RALLY FOR SANDERS — 'HE’S ELVIS’ — WHILE MUSIC’S
DONOR CLASS BACKS CLINTON. INSIDE THE GREAT DIVIDE

BY CHRIS W I L L M A N

THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS’
Feb. 5 benefit for Democratic
presidential candidate Bernie
Sanders in Los Angeles did not
bear the hallmarks of a traditional
Hollywood fundraiser. The Chili
Peppers barely invoked Sanders’
name during their set, and donors
who had paid thousands of dollars
for front-row seats saw more stage
diving than political stumping.

But the band was hardly the main
draw. When volunteers with
bullhorns paced the Ace Theatre’s
lobby and asked concertgoers to

take their seats for a video
appearance by the 74-year-old
Sanders, the beer line instantly
dispersed. And when the Chili
Peppers left the stage, chants of
“Ber-NIE! Ber-NIE!” rang out. The
message was clear: These rock stars
were in the service of a potentially
even bigger rock star.

“I’d never done a political concert
until I heard the authenticity and
truth of Bernie’s message,” said
organizer and RHCP recruiter
Rain Phoenix, 43 (whose brother
Joaquin was among those in the
crowd). Sanders, whose candi-
dacy was considered a longshot
by most experts, soundly defeated
rival Hillary Clinton in New
Hampshire’s Feb. 9 primary, and
Phoenix isn’t satisfied with just the
one benefit. “I’m really into the idea
of bringing amazing artists to a red

state and dropping them there.”

There will be no shortage
of bands to book for future
benefits, judging from the Artists
for Bernie web page, which includes
both the usual suspects from
decades of Democratic activism —
Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt,
Steve Earle — as well as more
millennial-friendly artists like Killer
Mike, Cobra Starship’s Gabe
Saporta, Thurston Moore and
Jeff Tweedy. In all, Sanders lists
more than 80 musicians as signees.

As for which names appear on
the Artists for Hillary page... well, it
doesn’t exist. Perhaps the Clinton
campaign will build a similar online
database later, but so far musician
advocacy for the front-running
Democratic candidate has been
surprisingly muted. The sing-
ers who have publicly endorsed

THEOVERUNDER

Red Lobster CEO Kim Lopdrup
sees sales spike 33 percent
after Beyonce references the
restaurant chain in "Formation."

Original Chicago singer
Peter Cetera bails on the band's
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
induction: "[It's] not meant to be."

NBCUniversal Telemundo
Enterprises chairman

Cesar Conde plots new
$250 million global HQ in Miami.

ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES YAMASAKI

FEBRUARY 20, 2016 I WWW.BILLBOARD.COM 17

TOPLINE

or financially supported Clinton, from old-schoolers of
the donor class like Barbra Streisand, Jon Bon Jovi and
Carole King to younger artists like Demi Lovato (who
performed at an Iowa rally in January), Christina Aguilera,
Kanye West, Katy Perry, Beyonce and Ariana Grande,
have done so with seemingly little impact.

That’s not to say that Clinton, 68, lacks significant music-
business support. In fact, she would appear to be just as
disproportionately favored in the industry’s executive suites
as Sanders is on music’s street. In compiling the Power too
issue, Billboard surveyed execs about their choice for presi-
dent. Many declined to say, but of those who did, 20 named
Clinton, while only two power players answered Sanders. The
list of avowedly pro-Clinton VIPs includes manager Scooter
Braun and Epic Records chief Antonio “L.A.” Reid — both

of whom have hosted
benefits — along with RCA
CEO Peter Edge, UMG
Nashville’s Mike Dungan,
UTA chief Jeremy
Zimmer, Interscope exec-
utive vp Steve Berman,
Capitol COO Michelle
Jubelirer and Glassnote
founder Daniel Glass.

“Hillary brings more
experience to the presi-
dential race than any other
candidate,” says manager
Brandon Creed (Bruno
Mars, Mark Ronson).
Island Records president
David Massey agrees:
“She has a genuine intel-
ligence, which ... this
country needs.”

“Hillary Clinton has
been my friend for over
20 years,” says John Sykes, iHeartMedia’s Entertainment
Enterprises president, “and she has kept every promise
she has ever made.”

Results of the New Hampshire primary, however — where
Clinton earned only 17 percent of the under-30 vote, versus
Sanders’ 83 percent — led her to admit the obvious: “I have
some work to do with young people.”

To Sanders fans, the split within the music world makes
sense. “Executives have protection under the current model,”
says artist-turned-producer Joe Henry. “Musicians pay for
their own insurance, if they have any, and feel completely
vulnerable to the shifting landscape. We’d rather gamble on a
revolution than a more benevolent landlord.”

Ben Folds is part of a multigenerational Sanders family:
His 16-year-old daughter, Grade, opened for the Chili
Peppers in L.A. by playing “This Land Is Your Land” on
ukulele. Folds says that millennials “love having a political
relationship with a grandfatherly figure who isn’t trying
to kiss their ass.”

Sanders supporter Jill Sobule performed at a Jan. 30
benefit in Iowa. “I was there with Vampire Weekend and
Foster the People, playing in front of 5,000 millennials,
and it was so exciting to see the energy, exuberance and
participation in the political process. It’s hard opening up for
Bernie, though,” she adds. “No one really cared about the
musical acts; those kids wanted to see Bernie. He’s Elvis.” O

Republican Hopefuls
Have Music Fans, Too

DONALD TRUMP

His celebrity
endorsers include
Kid Rock ("Let
the motherf-ing
business guy run it like a
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Banks and Loretta Lynn.

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Beyonce Shakes Up Team

After a quiet year, the Queen Bey juggernaut kicks back into gear

BY DAN RYS

W hen Beyonce turned her
Feb. 7 Super Bowl cameo
into both a political
action and a product
launch in front of 112 million TV viewers,
it wasjustthe latest in a behind-the-
scenes plan to reintroduce the singer
to the masses after more than a year on
the sidelines.

The halftime performance of
"Formation," the 34-year-old artist's
first new official single since 2013,
preceded a 15-second announcement
of her American Express-sponsored,
Arthur Fogel- and Live Nation-promoted
Formation Tour, a 40-date trek through
North America and Europe that begins
April 27. The reveal ignited instant
speculation that Beyonce's sixth solo
album is imminent, but when?

One high-ranking source says: "For the
last album, [the label] went through an 11-
month fire drill starting with [Beyonce's
2013] Super Bowl [performance]." Indeed,
the as-yet-untitled album, her last under
her current Columbia Records deal, is
not on Sony's release schedule and could
arrive with little to no warning ("Beyonce
doesn't do release dates," remarks an
insider), likely around the start of the tour.

More certain is that Beyonce is
protecting her new songs just as fiercely
as she guarded word of her previous,
self-titled album. In the days before
the Super Bowl, the singer went so far
as to rehearse without broadcasting
the music or vocals, creating a bizarre,
mimed spectacle at Levi's Stadium in

Santa Clara, Calif. "It was so strange to
see the performance on the Jumbotron
and hear nothing," a source recounts.

In recent weeks, Beyonce also retooled
her 5-year-old Parkwood Entertainment
management company in its first major
executive overhaul since 2011. GM Lee
Anne Callahan-Longo exited along with
head of digital Lauren Wirtzer-Seawood
and several more senior staffers. One
source attributes the split to "Beyonce's
desire to relocate" Parkwood's New
York headquarters to Los Angeles,
where she has been based for the past
year. Another insists that the company
remains New York-based; a rep for
Beyonce declined to comment.

Those exits were followed by a string
of new hires: Former Pledge Music
executive Dan Ghosh-Roy is now head of
digital, Warner Bros. Records executive
vp Peter Thea joined, and Steve Pamon
— who orchestrated J.P. Morgan Chase's
On the Run Tour sponsorship in 2014 —
became Parkwood's new COO.

Meanwhile, the Formation Tour — with
its AmEx sponsorship finalized a week
before the announcement, according
to an insider — marks Beyonce's first
time playing stadiums without her
husband, Jay Z, a step up from the arenas
of the 2013 to 2014 Mrs. Carter Show
World Tour that grossed $212 million
across 126 shows. Should Beyonce
sell out 40 stadium dates, she could
yield a potential gross of $200 million
to $250 million alone, according to
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Time Runs Out For
Robert Sillerman And SFX

The veteran executive is "neutered" as his would-be EDM powerhouse
files for Chapter 11 — and shares lose 99.6 percent of theirvalue

BY GLENN PEOPLES

O n Feb. 1, Robert Sillerman's plans for
EDM domination finally came crashing
down. After a four-year spending spree
during which his would-be powerhouse
SFX Entertainment acquired promoters ID&T (with
its Tomorrowland, TomorrowWorld and Mysteryland
festivals), Made Event (Electric Zoo) and Disco
Donnie Presents, along with dance-music download/
streaming service Beatportand artist management
firm TMWRK, the company
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection. On that day, an
investor who held SFX shares
since its splashy $12-a-share
IPO in October 2013 would
have lost all but 5 cents per
share — a 99.6 percent decline.

It was a long fall for the
68-year-old wannabe dance
music mogul, who attempted
to apply a formula that had paid off for him richly
in the past: creating a focused conglomerate by
acquiring stand-alone companies. In the 1990s,
he bought up 71 radio stations before selling them
to Capstar Broadcasting for $2.1 billion. Next, he
acquired regional concert promoters and sold the
ensuing company, SFX Entertainment, to Clear
Channel in 2000 for $4.4 billion. But this time, he
freely admitted he didn't understand EDM — and his
attempt to cash in on the dance music boom was met

with widespread cynicism in its insular community.

SFX, delisted from the Nasdaq on Feb. 10, will
continue to operate, and although Sillerman is
still chairman, he has been "completely neutered,"
according to a source. The bondholders that have
taken control of the company required SFX to hire a
new CEO within 90 days, and the company already
has engaged an executive search firm, says a source
with knowledge of the situation. (SFX and Sillerman
declined comment.)

Chapter 11 provides
protection from the company's
creditors and gives it time
to restructure debt and
meetfinancial obligations.

The judge has approved
access to $80 million of
the$115 million of debtor-
in-possession financing —
meaning the bondholders
are running the show — and allotted $23 million
for operating expenses. With the capital injection,
SFX can continue to run its business with little to no
interruption. Subsidiaries, however, are left in limbo,
a source close to the situation tells Billboard. "Some
people wantto buy their businesses back, but it’s not
really up to them — bankruptcy complicates things."

SFX and several of its subsidiaries have
emphasized that it's "business as usual," although
Tomorrowland contradicted SFX's claim that a

Before theflood:TomorrowWorld on
Sept. 27, 2015, in Chattahoochee Hills, Ga.

2016 TomorrowWorld festival will take place,
saying that its vision and strategy "are different
from those of the publicly listed company."

The most recent installment of the festival, in
September 2015, was beset by weather and
transportation issues that stranded thousands of
attendees without shelter, food and water.

"[The bankruptcy] was a good thing," says promoter
James “Disco Donnie” Estopinal. "It was necessary to
get out from underthe debt. For us, nothing's going
to change. All the festivals are happening."

Sources believe that everything from the sale of
select assets to competitors to acquisition of the
entire company is on the table. One scenario could
see SFX acquired by a private equity firm, allowing
bondholders to exit their investment and giving the
buyer an opportunity to turn SFX's financials away
from the public eye.

As for Sillerman? "He's not getting anything
from Wall Street ever again," says an insider. "He'll
disappear." O

Additional reporting by Kat Bein.

Nieto Molina’s Death Stuns Univision

Veteran radio executive died of a heart attack just nine days into his new role as senior vp/GM

THE LATIN MUSIC WORLD WAS SHOCKED ON FEB. 8
when Alejandro Nieto Molina, 48, died suddenly of a heart
attack, just nine days into his new role as senior vp/

GM of Univision Radio, the largest Spanish-language
network in the United States. The radio veteran was so
well known in his native Colombia that he became a
trending Twitter topic in the country that day, and the
country’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, described him
in a tweet as a “brilliant journalist.”

Nieto Molina’s appointment had signaled a new
direction for the radio giant. In a market dominated by
regional Mexican music and led primarily by executives
with Mexican or Cuban roots, Nieto Molina was the first

Colombian to head the company’s radio operation. And
unlike most network chiefs, who have backgrounds in sales,
he came from a family of radio journalists and began his
career behind the microphone. Along the way he founded
Colombia’s groundbreaking La Mega, was program director
for the influential Caracol Radio network, and occupied
executive posts at Prisa Radio, the Spanish-language radio
company with operations in 12 countries. A rep for Univision
said the company had not announced its next steps.

Alejandro Marin, GM of Colombia’s Todelar Radio
network, tells Billboard : “At a time where we lack
serious leaders in radio, Alejandro was in a league of
his own.” -LEILA COBO

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The Adele Windfall

The songwriters and producers who contributed to her25 blockbuster have shared $13 million in royalties to date

ADELE’S 25 IS A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON
giving to the music business, spreading
wealth beyond her labels (XL and Columbia/
Sony) and publisher (Universal) to retailers,
performing rights organizations and, not
least, the 16 songwriters and producers who
collaborated with her on the album.

The chart below reflects how much each
of them has earned from songwriting and

hit-song rate of $2.50 per spin for radio
airplay. Those rates were applied to U.S. sales
of 8 million, such U.S. digital radio noninter-
active streaming as iHeartRadio simulcasts
(excluding Pandora, which does not report
its playlists to Nielsen Music), such U.S.
interactive streaming as Spotify, Apple Music
and YouTube (only for the single “Hello”) and
U.S. radio airplay. All airplay and sales data

were supplied by Nielsen Music through the
week ending Jan. 28.

Billboard estimates that Adele — who
co-wrote each song on the album — and
other songwriters have reaped almost
$9.6 million in royalties; the songwriters’
publishers combined have taken in nearly
$1.9 million. The album’s 13 producers
and co-producers (many of whom are also

producing so far (criteria explained below),

songwriters) shared $3.1 million.

SEND MY LOVE (TO YOUR NEW LOVER)

RIVER LEA

LOVE IN THE DARK

MILLION YEARS AGO

SWEETEST DEVOTION

CAN’T LET GO” (BONUS TRACK)

WHY DO YOU LOVE ME" (BONUS TRACK)

using the appropriate standard statutory rates
and formulas for sales and interactive and
noninteractive streaming, and an estimated

And with the Grammy Awards just
days away, expect those numbers to grow
significantly. -ed christman

Greg Kurstin

songwriter-producer

>3,807,940

Adele

songwriter

$817,600

Paul Epworth

songwriter-producer

Philip Lawrence

songwriter-producer

Ryan Tedder

songwriter-producer

Brian Burton
(aka Danger Mouse)

songwriter-producer

Bruno Mars

songwriter-producer

$494,150

Samuel Dixon

songwriter-producer

Linda Perry

songwriter-producer

Christopher
Brody Brown

songwriter

Tobias Jesso Jr.

songwriter

Max Martin

songwriter-producer

Ari Levine

producer

Karl Johan Schuster
(aka Shellback)

songwriter-producer

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songwriter

Mark Ronson

producer

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situation or news reports of the writers' publishing deals, although individual writers' deals vary widely. In most instances, the songwriters own their publishing and have administrative deals with publishers (an 85-to-15 percent split), except for a co-
publishing deal (a 75-to-25 percent split) and two straight publishing deals (50-to-50 percent split). Producers' royalties are basecf on the standard superstar producer rate of 4 percent per track for master recordings.

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Warner Music Ups Its
Stake In Mike Caren

The executive gets a promotion within the company and
a multimillion-dollar investment in his Artist Partners Group

BY JEM ASWAD

I t's no accident that Mike Caren's
job titles atWarner MusicGroup —
"president of global A&R" and now
"creative officer" — are so vague.
The executive takes a holistic approach
to A&R, whether collaborating on
songwriting and production with
artists like Beyonce ("Ring Off"),

Kanye West ("Hell of a Life") and David

Guetta ("Where Them Girls At"); signing
artists and overseeing their recordings;
or helping them get their businesses
off the ground under the umbrella of his
company, Artist Partners Group.

Caren has inked a new deal that
promotes him to WMG's creative officer
and provides to APG a multimillion-
dollar investment from Atlantic Records

and WMG that will enable the
company to grow its signings, its staff
(from 12 to 20 by the end of 2016) and
its studios (which will soon relocate
to a new complex in West Hollywood),
with all of its releases distributed
by Atlantic and published through
Warner/Chappell. APG, which
grew from Caren's Artist Publishing
Group in 2013, essentially acts as a
supercharged label-services division
for artist imprints like rapper Kevin
Gates' Bread Winners Association
(whose Islah album debuted at
No. 2 on the Feb. 20 Billboard 200),
R&B singer Kehlani's Tsunami Mob
(which released her Grammy Award-
nominated You Should Be Here), a
forthcoming venture from Charlie Puth
(whose Nine Track Mind is at No. 6 on
the Billboard 200) and more to come.

It's the latest progression in Caren's
history with WMG, which began when
hejoined Atlantic in 1996 at age 17
and continued as he rose to become
co-president of Elektra Records,
where he worked with Ed Sheeran and
Bruno Mars. Billboard caught up with
the 38-year-old married father of two
to find out how he makes it all work.

What can you say about APG’s
business model? We try to empower
artists — to help execute their
creative and entrepreneurial visions,
which is what we've started with
Charlie, Kevin and Kehlani. But
it's really just the beginning. We
also look at ourselves as sort of an
indie-major. We have Atlantic as our
partner and all of its resources, but
we also have [our own] team, which
includes marketing, sync, business
development and legal. We approach

the artist and his or her brand in a
different way because we have no
[parent] company to promote.

So you’re intentionally operating
under the radar? That's sort of the
concept: Our artists' labels — their
companies — are at the forefront.

I’m basically loaning them my
staff and their expertise, like some
venture firms do, to be able to

“I’m basically
loaning my staff
to artists, like
a venture firm.”

expedite their early plans and get
their companies growing. We want
to pass along all the best practices
so that the smart ones will be
making great decisions. Down the
road, we'll be learning from them.

What brought about the idea for
the company? I’m a big record
collector and ... the feeling of seeing
the logo when you pull a record out
of the sleeve, that has all dissipated.
I felt the business is missing the
infrastructure to create the brands
of the future, companies that
would be more culturally invested.

I wanted to fill a hole I felt was
missing in the business.

When do you find the time to make
music? Some people play golf or
video games. Making the Beyonce
beat was just another sort of fun. O

A SUPERGROUP WITH
AFI? NO DOUBT’S (MINUS
GWEN) ABOUT IT

Alternative rock's latest odd coupling
is shopping a completed album

AFI f rontman Davey Havok has joined forces
with No Doubt's Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal and
Adrian Young to form an as-yet-unnamed band,
reps for the group confirmed to Billboard . The
quartet, which sources say is managed by Pat
Magnarella (Green Day) , already has completed
an album and is seeking a label deal.

The union recalls alternative supergroup
Audioslave (which united Soundgarden ' s
Chris Cornell and the musicians of Rage

Against the Machine) . Similarly, the new band
brings with it a formidable sales history -
No Doubt has sold 16.3 million albums in the
United States since 1992 and AFI 4.1 million
since 1995, according to Nielsen Music -
although the former group's firepower without
singer Gwen Stefani is an open question.

Few No Doubt followers will be surprised
that the band has found another singer, even
temporarily. The group successfully toured
America in 2015 - behind its 2012 album Push
and Shove, which sold a disappointing 259,000
units - but Stefani hired new manager Irving
Azoff and focused on her solo career (her new
album This Is What the Truth Feels Like is due
March 18 on Interscope) . Young suggested as
much to Billboard in April 2015. "We're in a
little bit of limbo right now," he said, "so
we'll see where that takes us." —STEVE BALTIN

From left: Kanal, Havok, Young and Dumont.

24 BILLBOARD I FEBRUARY 20, 2016

BRINGING ARTISTRY
TO THE WORLD
IS AN ART
ALL ITS OWN.

SONY MUSIC
PROUDLY SALUTES OUR
TALENTED EXECUTIVES
ON BILLBOARD’S
POWER 100 LIST.

SONY MUSIC

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A Teacher, A Preacher,
The Greatest Friend’

Maurice White founded Earth,
Wind & Fire in 1969 and helmed
the group for 47 years (and 32
Hot 100 hits) until his death,
on Feb. 4, after a decades-long
struggle with Parkinson's disease.
He is remembered here by his
younger brother, bassist Verdine
White, and singer Philip Bailey,
both of whom joined the group in
the early 1970s and lead it today.

Verdine White: Maurice made
Earth, Wind & Fire out of the clay
of his soul.

Through his music and how
he lived his life, he inspired all of
us. I had no idea, when I came to
Los Angeles as an 18-year-old to
join the band, that my life would
change so profoundly.

He taught me the greatest
lessons of my life ... the real
values: love, kindness and
compassion. Whenever we
would accomplish something
great together, he'd say, "Dino,
we done good."

I'm grateful that I was able to
make this journey with him. His
music will live on, forever and
ever. He's the best big brother
anyone could ever askfor.

Maurice, you done good.

Philip Bailey: Maurice finished
his race. Now he gets his wings,
so to speak — the everlasting
ability to soar freely with radiance

and splendor in the glory of God's
love. It's what we used to talk
about and what we used to write
and sing about.

I remember one day he held
out his hand, with his fist
clenched tight. He said, "Try to
get something out of my hand."
Obviously I couldn't. He said,
"That's a good lesson about life:

If you hold your hands tight,
nothing comes in and nothing
goes out." You've got to keep
your hands open in order to give
and to receive.

We often spoke about our
shared experience of growing up
without our fathers present and
the impact it had on us. Maurice
shaped a lot of the feelings and
perspectives on life that I had as
a young adult.

He was always thoughtful. I
remember attending my first
Broadway musical with him: The
Wiz. Maurice bought me a suit so
I would be presentable.

He was a fierce perfectionist
and workaholic. He was very
task-oriented and knew how
to execute his plans by pulling
the right resources together to
implementthe vision.

I will miss you, Maurice. You
were a brother, a father figure,
a teacher, a preacher and the
greatest friend. You cracked me
up with your down-home humor,
and you had so much swagger. O

Big Game Shazams

Super Bowl branding and the app lift offbeat artists

BY KEVIN RUTHERFORD

A Super Bowl TV ad isn't just
the prime arena for reviving a
classic song - it also can be
a vehicle for song discovery,
thanks in no small part to music-
identification app Shazam. The
proof? While Morgan Dorr was
hardly a household name before
the game, some 44,000 people used
Shazam (based on the total number
of user tags from game night) to
identify his new song "4X4ever,"
that was included in a Jeep commercial and commissioned by parent
company FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles). Unusually, the company chose a
relatively unknown artist, making the spot the only ad on the list that
doesn't feature a name artist or hit song. "'4x4ever' was created as an
original song specifically for the brand," says Olivier Francois, the
company's global chief marketing officer, "because there was no other
piece of music that could tell this Jeep story."

TOP 10 SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS

ARTIST

SONG TITLE

COMPANY

td

Morgan Dorr

"4X4ever"

Jeep

2

Harry Nilsson

"Without You"

Heinz

3

Seal and The NFL Choir

"Kiss From a Rose"

NFL

4

Queen

"Somebody to Love"

Honda

5

Clarity

"Don't Panic"

X-Men Apocalypse film

6

Missy Elliott

"Pep Rally"

Amazon Echo

7

Demi Lovato

"Confident"

PayPal

8

Ramones

"Blitzkrieg Bop"

GoPro

|9

Baauer (with Novelist and Leikeli47)

"Day Ones"

Budweiser

10

Incredible Bongo Band

"Apache"

Prius

Jeep's Super Bowl spot was scored by
Dorr's original song "4X4ever."

Empire Of The Sun Drives Honda Sync To Chart Revival

Branding has revived many a song,
but few seem less likely than
Empire of the Sun's 2008 track
"Walking on a Dream," which has
found new life in an ad for the
2016 Honda Civic. The Australian
group's tune peaked at No. 6 on

A still from thefuturistic Super Bowl
ad for the 2016 Honda Civic.

the Dance Singles Sales chart in
March 2009 but remained mostly
dormant until the ad's Dec. 30,
2015, premiere. It has since
topped the Billboard / Clio Music
Top Commercials chart (powered
by Shazam)* with 297,000 Shazam
tags during January — the highest
monthly total since Billboard
launched the chart in December
2014. It also moved 116,000
digital downloads and 7.6 million
domestic streams in January, from
2,000 downloads and 1.7 million
streams in December, according to
Nielsen Music .

BILLBOARD & CLIO MUSIC’S TOP COMMERCIAL SONGS, JANUARY 2016

ARTIST

SONG TITLE

COMPANY

1 Empire of the Sun

"Walking on a Dream"

Honda

2 2 Chainz

"Watch Out"

Beats by Dre

3 Borns

: "Electric Love"

Chrysler

4 Joy wave

"Tongues"

Google Nexus

5 Lucius

"Turn It Around"

Samsung Galaxy

6 Hermitude

"The Buzz"

Samsung Gear S2

7 American Authors

"Best Day of My Life"

Weight Watchers

8 Kiss

"Beth"

Volkswagen

9 Skrillex & Dillon Francis

"Bun Up the Dance"

Royal Caribbean

10 Avicii

"Feeling Good"

Volvo

26 BILLBOARD I FEBRUARY 20, 2016

‘BILLBOARD PARTNERS WITH CLIO MUSIC EACH MONTH TO PRESENT A CHART RANKING THE TOP SONGS IN COMMERCIALS USING
TAGGING DATA FROM SHAZAM, AS WELL AS SALES AND STREAMING INFORMATION TRACKED BY NIELSEN MUSIC. RANKINGS EXCLUDE ANY
SONG THAT HAS RECENTLY CHARTED WITHIN THE TOP 40 OF THE BILLBOARD HOT 100.

CreativeArtistsAgency

TEAMWORK IS POWER

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF BILLBOARD’S " POWER 100” HONOREES AND THANK YOU
TO THE MANAGERS, PROMOTERS, ATTORNEYS, LABELS, MARKETERS, EXECUTIVES,
PUBLICISTS, COLLEAGUES, AND MOST IMPORTANLY, THE ARTISTS WHO INSPIRE US ALL

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New York hip-hop DJ Big Kap,
best-known for his 1999
collaboration album The
Tunnel with Funkmaster Flex,
died of a heart attack. He
was 45.

Annie Imamura, Universal
Music Group's director of
global communications,
and her husband, film critic
Elvis Mitchell, welcomed
son Benjamin Rikio Mitchell,
weighing 6.9 lbs.

4AD named Ben Gaffin

director of A&R.

Wiz Khalifa announced
a new partnership with
Colorado-based company
River Rock Cannabis for an
exclusive marijuana line.

Management 360 signed

Justin Bieber pastor Judah
Smith across all areas.

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1 02-09

Mike Boila vice president.

Warner Music Group
elevated Stu Bergen to CEO
of international and global
commercial services.

A Philadelphia judge ordered
rapper Meek Mill to serve 90
days of house arrest, effective
March 1, for violating the
terms of his parole in a 2009
drug and gun case.

Jermaine Dupri signed with
Creative Artists Agency in
all areas.

Universal picked up an
untitled musical comedy
starring Channing Tatum and
Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Dan Hicks, former
drummer of The
Charlatans and founder
of Dan Hicks & His Hot
Licks, died at his home
in Mill Valley, Calif., after
a battle with cancer. He
was 74.

Hicks

Laurel Dann, who had held
posts at Entertainment One
Music, Virgin Records and
Jive Records, died after a long
illness. She was 69.

Miami attorney Leslie Zigel,
whose clients include Pitbull
and Wisin, joined
Florida firm Greenspoon
Marder Law. Zigel
will head up the firm's

newly established
Entertainment Law Group.

Singer-songwriter Elle King
and longtime boyfriend
Andrew "Fergie" Ferguson
announced their engagement
on Twitter.

Natalie Jamieson joined
Bauer Media Group as
entertainment and lifestyle
content director. She
previously served as senior
entertainment reporter/
presenter at BBC Radio 1.

Renata Muniz joined Epic
Records as senior director of
publicity. She was previously
with Def Jam Records.

Muniz

NBC's The Voice winner

Jordan Smith signed a
worldwide management
deal with Macklam Feldman
Management.

Washington, D.C.'s historic
9:30 Club announced a music
variety show setto air in April
on PBS Television. Live at
9:30 Hosted by Squarespace
will feature performances by
Garbage, Tove Lo and Ibeyi.

Concord Bicycle Music
announced the opening of
Stax of Wax, a vinyl-only
store at Malibu's upscale
County Mart.

Good Charlotte inked a
worldwide agreement with
Kobalt Label Services.

BIRTHDAYS

Feb. 14

Rob Thomas (44)

Feb. 15

Conor Oberst (36)
Brandon Boyd (40)
Gloria Trevi (48)

Feb. 16

Ice-T (58)

Feb. 17

Lupe Fiasco (34)

Feb. 18

Regina Spektor (36)

Dr. Dre (51)

Yoko Ono (83)

Feb. 19

Beth Ditto (35)

Seal (53)

Smokey Robinson (76)

Feb. 20

Rihanna (28)

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life has to offer is the chance to
work hard at work worth
doing.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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BEFORE THE DENVER BRONCOS CLAIMED THEIR THIRD
trophy (against the Carolina Panthers, 24-10), Super Bowl 50
hosted a halftime show fit for its golden anniversary. Colorful
rock band Coldplay brought its “Believe in Love” message
to Levi’s Stadium as the band swept through a career’s worth
of hits. The British group’s enthusiastic effort, however, was
overshadowed by co-stars and halftime-show alums Beyonce
(2013) and Bruno Mars (2014). Alongside Mark Ronson and
his Hooligans squad, Mars ushered in the groove with a high-
energy run of Ronson’s hit “Uptown Funk!” And then there
was Queen Bey. The singer paid tribute to Michael Jackson ’s
iconic 1993 halftime-show ensemble with a military-inspired
DSquared2 jacket as she and her beret-clad dancers milly rocked
for a performance of her surprise single “Formation.” The
game, which aired on CBS, scored its own touchdown with the
NFL’s second-highest TV ratings and marked the culmination
of a weekend full of private pregame festivities featuring A-list
music performances. Future and Diplo brought the party to
San Francisco’s Battery Hotel for New Era’s Gold Rush event,
which hosted VIP attendees Justin Bieber, Serena Williams
and Usher. And at the city’s Pier 70, Pharrell Williams and
DJ Khaled fired off hits for Pepsi’s Friday Night Live show, while
on the following evening Red Hot Chili Peppers, Run-D.M.C.
andDJ Snoopadelic (aka Snoop Dogg) impressed with sets
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a near-perfect
rendition of "The Star-
Spangled Banner"

to kick off the game.

2 Williams during his
performance at Pier 70
on Feb. 5. 3 From left:
Derek Hough posed
with Nick Jonas and
Julianne Hough at the
DirecTV bash at Pier 70
on Feb. 6. 4 Lil Wayne
performed during the
2016 Maxim Party at
Treasure Island on
Feb. 6. 5Snoop (right)
shook hands with
Carolina Panthers
running back Jonathan
Stewart during a press
conference in San Jose,
Calif., on Feb. 4.

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NAACP
Image Awards

PASADENA, FEB. 5

DURING THE ANTHONY ANDERSON-HOSTED
47th annual NAACP Image Awards, which honored
performers in film and TV (with previous awards
presented Feb. 4 for achievement in music, literature
and animation), it was John Legend’s voice that
rang perhaps the loudest. Receiving the President’s
Award for his public service from NAACP president
Cornell William Brooks, the Oscar and Grammy
winner gave a powerful speech after singing his hit
“All of Me.” “We know that we stand on the shoulders
of giants who risked their lives to bring us closer
to true freedom,” Legend told an audience that
included Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith. “Our
lives should, indeed, matter just as much as anyone
else’s,” he added. “Fighting for justice isn’t an act
of hate, it’s an act of love. So let’s spread love; let’s
make the world a more beautiful and just place. We
have so much opportunity, let’s not waste it.” Other
big winners included Empire’s Jussie Smollett, who
was honored for outstanding new artist; Pharrell
Williams, who was named outstanding male
artist; and Jill Scott, who received the award for
outstanding female artist. -chris Gardner

1 "We don't need to
ask for acceptance
from anyone," said
Taraji P. Henson (left,
with Empire co-star
Bryshere Y. Gray) upon
winning for outstanding
actress in a drama
series. 2 Pinkett Smith
and Smith. 3 Host
Anderson (center)
performed a "Straight
Outta Hollywood"
spoof to open the show.
4 Keke Palmer. 5 From
left: Straight Outta
Compton's Neil Brown
Jr., director F. Gary
Gray, O'Shea Jackson
Jr. and producer Scott
Bernstein posed
with their awards for
outstanding motion
picture. 6Legend.

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Clockwise from left:
J. Ralph, Sam Smith,
Lady Gaga, Jimmy
Napes, Diane Warren,
David Lang and Stephan
Moccio photographed
Feb. 8 at The Beverly
Hilton in Los Angeles. For
a podcast of the group's
conversation about their
Oscar-nominated songs
and a behind-the-scenes
video from the shoot,
goto Billboard.com or
Billboard.com/ipad.

Sam Smith, Lady Gaga and other songwriters up for best
original song atthe Academy Awards talk the real-life inspirations
behind their music, from environmental devastation to sexual assault

BY MELINDA NEWMAN • PHOTOGRAPHED BY AUSTIN HARGRAVE

T he annual academy award nominees LUNCHEON, HELD FEB. 8
at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, has just come to a close, and
Lady Gaga and famed songwriter Diane Warren are in each other’s
arms. After all, they have been through a lot together. For the pair, writing
the Oscar-nominated song “Til It Happens to You” for The Hunting Ground was
more than just a job: The documentary examines the epidemic of rape on college
campuses, and both women are survivors. “The idea was for two women with
a history of sexual assault to come together and make something honest,” says

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Gaga, 29, who in 2014 revealed that
she was raped as a teenager. “But it’s
hard. There were days I didn’t want to
finish the song. But Diane was like, ‘it’s
for a good cause,’ and she’s right. This
nomination is not just for the song —
it’s for the cause.”

Gaga and Warren, 59, are up for
best original song at the 88th annual
Academy Awards, and the pair
is gathered with five of the other
nominees in the category: Sam Smith
and his co-writer Jimmy Napes,
nominated for Smith’s “Writing’s on
the Wall,” from the James Bond film
Spectre ; David Lang, the composer
behind “Simple Song #3” from the
Paolo Sorrentino dramedy Youth ;
Stephan Moccio, one of the writers
of The Weeknd’s “Earned It,” the hit
song from the even bigger hit movie
Fifty Shades of Grey; and J. Ralph, who
performed and co-wrote “Manta Ray”
with Ahnoni for the documentary
Racing Extinction.

But no one seems
worried about the
competition —
they’ll save that
for the Feb. 28

awards show. As David Bowie
plays in the background, the seven
songwriters take photos, shake hands
and, in at least one case, make plans.
Smith, 23, and Gaga huddle briefly and
plot a get-together — possibly even to
make some music. “Maybe it will be
awful,” she says with a giggle. “Maybe
it will be great.” Either way, Smith
is already a winner. “I’m the
biggest Gaga fan there
is,” he confesses, a
huge grin spread
across his face.

“I queued
up for her
shows when
I was 17!”

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Diane Warren and Lady Gaga

"Til It Happens to You," from
The Hunting Ground (performed by Gaga)

Warren has been nominated for best original song
seven times before, through hits with Celine Dion,
LeAnn Rimes and others. But Gaga's "Til It Happens
to You" feels different, she says. "I've had a lot of hit
records, but never in my life has a song resonated so
deeply with so many people," explains Warren, who
was sexually assaulted by a friend's father as a child.
"It's becoming an anthem: No, you're not a victim —
you're a badass survivor." A remix of "Til It Happens
to You" reached No. 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart.

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Sam Smith
and Jimmy Napes

"Writing's on the Wall," from Spectre
(performed by Smith)

Napes, 28, Smith's go-to co-writer, calls
making a Bond-film theme song "a
dream come true for us — especially
being British!" The pair already snagged
the Golden Globe for the sweeping track,
which deliberately shows a softer side
of the secret agent. "I always have to put
my heartoutthereand be as vulnerable
as I can — I wasn't going to change that
for Bond," says Smith. "Every
man, no matter who they are,
sometimes has a little cry."

1. J. Ralph

"Manta Ray," from Racing Extinction
(performed by Ralph and Ahnoni)

Ralph, 40, previously nominated in 2013
for Chasing Ice's "Before My Time,"
returns to the theme of environmental
devastation with ballad "Manta Ray." His
inspiration? A heartbreaking recording
of the last remaining Kauai O'o bird, says
Ralph. "He was singing his mating call,
unaware he was the last of his species.
So there was no response. 'How come
she's not singing back?' "

2 . Stephan Moccio

"Earned It," from Fifty Shades of Grey
(performed by The Weeknd)

For her blockbuster S&M movie, director
Sam Taylor Johnson wanted atheme
song from a "strong male perspective,"
recalls Moccio, 43. Co-written by
The Weeknd, Ahmad Balshe and Jason
Daheala Quenneville, "Earned It" reached
No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and
Moccio says The Weeknd's falsetto was
a key selling point: "There's a sweetness
to it, but at the same time there's a lot
of strength."

3 . David Lang

"Simple Song #3," from Youth
(performed by Lang and Sumi Jo)

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Lang,
58, wrote this operatic song to capture
the emotional arc of a retired conductor
(played by Michael Caine) reflecting on
his changing marriage. Director Paolo
Sorrentino set the bar pretty high: "He
just said, 'I need to cry,' " recalls Lang.

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EXCLUSIVE

5 REVELATIONS ABOUT THE NEW TUPAC SHAKUR FILM

Music-video veteran Benny Boom, the director of All Eyezon Me, details the highly anticipated rap biopic

BY DAN RYS

A fter nearly a decade, all eyez
on Me, the long-delayed biopic of Tupac
S h a k u r , is finally coming to fruition,
with veteran music-video director Benny
Boom at the helm. Boom, 44, is the film’s third
director, after the departures of Carl Franklin and
then John Singleton. He came onboard at the end
of November 2015 and wasted little time: Filming
began in December with an eye on a September
release to coincide with the 20th anniversary of
the rapper’s murder. It’s a great time for another
rap flick, of course. In August 2015, the N.W. A film
Straight Outta Compton — which features All Eyez
on Me lead Demetrius Shipp Jr. making his debut
as Shakur — became the highest-grossing music
biopic ever. “Straight Outta Compton kicked open

the door for us,” says Boom. “It let us know we
can make our film the way we want to.” In his first
in-depth interview in 2016, the director reveals
five details about All Eyez on Me — all ones that
will make any 2Pac fan smile.

1. THE FILM GOES CRADLE TO GRAVE - AND
BEYOND

Tupac lived 25 tumultuous years, and rather than
focusing on one period of his life, Boom plans to
include as much as possible. “We’re starting from
before he was born,” he says. “His parents were
Black Panthers. You see the struggles of his youth,
his relationship with his mother, father figures that
were in and out of his life, and what he developed
into as a man from that. It humanizes him.”

and others, and Shakur had his own troubles with
violence against women, having been convicted
of sexual abuse in 1995. Boom says All Eyez on Me
won’t shy away from them. “That’s a big part of his
story, because [that conviction] completely changed
his life. We don’t sugarcoat things.”

3. THE FILM GETS "REVOLUTIONARY"

Shakur is arguably the most revered rapper of all
time, and his outspoken views on racial injustice
are a big reason why. “ [Racism] is a vicious cycle,
and Tupac was a victim of that; he witnessed police
brutality,” says Boom, “it’s not just a biopic about a
musician: It’s about a revolutionary. It’s the story of
a martyr, someone who died for his cause.”

4. IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT THE BEEF

Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. were the nexuses
of the East Coast/West Coast rap wars of the 1990s,
but Boom says the movie doesn’t take sides. “Our
film is about truth — it’s not about anybody’s side of
the story. These were young guys acting irrationally.
They had armies around them to hype them up. It’s
a cautionary tale.”

5. DON'T BELIEVE THE HATERS

After Singleton left the film in April 2015, he
criticized the producers for not being “respectful”
of Shakur’s legacy. Boom refutes that assertion.

“It’s America — you can say anything you want, but
that doesn’t make it true,” he says, citing family
members and friends of Shakur who have given
the film their blessing — including Naughty by
Nature’s Treach, who Boom says “shed a tear”
when he visited the set. “I wouldn’t be involved
if the respect wasn’t paid. This is an icon of our
generation, and I’m here to tell his story.” O

OVERHEARD

BY SELMA FONSECA

Bieber Supports
ASAP Rocky — Quietly

Despite being onstage,
Justin Bieber kept
a low profile at
Maxim magazine's
Super Bowl party.

When the evening's
headliner, ASAP
Rocky, took the stage
on Treasure Island in
San Francisco Bay,

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Bieber and his entourage
joined the rapper, but instead
of performing, the "Sorry"
singer stood quietly at the back
and watched Rocky present
a set that included "F— in'
Problems" and "Wassup."
Bieber stayed for the
entire set then slipped
away. Lil Wayne also
played the event, which
was produced by Bootsy
Bellows and Karma
International.

W

Tommy Lee's Cod Piece

The 80 guests who
attended the second,
exclusive $5,000-a-plate
Culinary Kickoff benefit
dinner in San Francisco
during Super Bowl Leg

weekend were setfor special
treatment from star chefs Michael
Mina and Charlie Palmer, butMotley
Crue drummer Tommy Lee got even
more personalized service. Lee and
his fiancee, Sofia Toufa, attended
the dinner at Mina's namesake

restaurant but couldn't partake of
the entire menu, which included
pork belly and beef, because they
are pescatarians. The chefs served
them Bolinas black cod instead.

Khloe And French Redux?

Khloe Kardashian and rapper
French Montana sparked rumors
that they're dating again when they
attended the FWRD X Unravel by
Elyse Walker party in Los Angeles
on Feb. 3.

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'I had a punk phase as
a teenager, which a lot
of kids do, but it stuck
with me," says James
Jagger (center) in Vinyl.

Q&A

I n a straight-on photograph, it's not so obvious.
But when James Jagger is singing, sneering
and pouting on HBO's new series Vinyl, he's the
spitting image of his pops, Mick — co-executive
producer (with Martin Scorsese) of the show. Vinyl,
which premieres Feb. 14, explores the fictional story
of Richie Finestra, a label head trying to save his
company in the sex- and drugs-saturated world of
early-1970s New York. Jagger plays Kip Stevens, the
heroin-addicted lead singer of a punk group called
The Nasty Bits. But this isn't a case of nepotism
gone wrong: The role is perfect for him. Son of Mick
and Jerry Hall, the London-raised Jagger, 30, has
experience as an actor (Stealing
Summers, Sex & Drugs & Rock &

Roll) and musician (he fronted the
band Turbogeist) — and of course,
he brings more than a little of his
family's history to the role.

Was it difficult acting in your
dad’s project?

Fie wasn't there any time I was
working, so it didn't feel like I was working for him in
any sort of way. I didn’t feel uncomfortable.

How did you research the role?

I don't know them personally, but there were people
in the punk scene I could identify with for the role:

Stiv Bators, Iggy Pop certainly, Richard Hell, Johnny
Thunders maybe — a little bit of his attitude.

In the first episode, Kip is both an addict and a
potential star. What happens with his character?

It gets worse before it gets better, let's just put it
that way. You see more ofthe human side to Kip

as the show progresses. It was really enjoyable for
me to portray this guy — he's a total asshole, but
he's also got hopes and dreams. It was nice to be
able to show there's more than one facet than this
sort of demonic, ruthlessly competitive, ambitious
[character], Fle's a sweet guy, deep down.

Who wrote The Nasty Bits’ songs?

Meand some old bandmates from Turbogeist wrote
a couple of songs in the pilot, and a few other people.
We had a great band recording them. [Sonic Youth’s]
Lee Ranaldo was kind of producing it with these
fantastic musicians: Wayne Kramer [of The MC5]
played guitar on one track, and
[New York Dolls'] David Johansen
did vocals for the Dolls stuff [that
the show uses]. We tracked them
at [Jimi Hendrix’s Manhattan
studio] Electric Lady, which was
such a surreal experience.

There’s a pretty serious sex
scene in the first episode. Had
you ever done one before?

Once before, yes. They can be really awkward: they
can be really funny. It depends on the circumstances
ofthe scene and whether you're comfortable with
the person you're doing it with. At the end of the day,
it's work, and we're adults, so we should be able to
get over the fact that we're naked.

How are they funny?

What's not funny about being naked? I feel it's worse
forgirlsthan itisforguys. We don'ttend to be as self-
conscious. Man, I love getting naked. (Laughs.) Any
opportunity, as far as I'm concerned! O

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K. MICHELLE’S

ANTI-VALENTINE

ANTHEMS

K. Michelle has her pick of
suitors on VHl's hit reality
show Love & Hip Hop Atlanta
and her solo spinoff. My Life,
now in its second season. But
as anyone who has heard her
music, including new single
"Not a Little Bit," knows, the
R&B singer, 31, is no stranger to
heartache. She shares a few of
her favorite breakup ballads for
the valentine-less.

"Didn't We Almost Have It AH"
Whitney Houston (1987)

"I can only listen to it when I'm
at my darkest points. Whitney's
voice has never just been about
her range: it's about her ability to
make you feel her pain, her hap-
piness, her hope, her resignation.
When I hear it, I'm like, ‘Cut it
off — I can't take it!' "

"You'll Think of Me".

Keith Urban (2002)

"What many people don't know
about me is that growing up in
Memphis, I always loved country.
This is one of the best songs out
there when it comes to describing
the aftermath of a breakup."

"Mine Again'!

Mariah Carey (2005)

"This song stays with me; it speaks
to when you know [a relationship]
is over. It's painful not to be with
the one you love simply because
you were at the wrong stage of
life when you met them."

"Not a Little Bit,"

K. Michelle (2016)

"It's about those last steps that
a person takes after a breakup:
when you can acknowledge the
importance of the relationship
but also see that you're better off
alone. It's about taking your power
back as a woman so you can
stand strong as a single person,
without regret." — ADELLE PLATON

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DEMONSTRATING

7 am not performing
at the Grammy
Awards ... but
hey, it's the thought
that counts."

— DRAKE

The rapper, on Twitter, refuting a
Grammys ad that made it seem as if
he were playing the awards show.

"This kid was
beautiful, like a
woman can be
beautiful and men
rarely are, and
he turned it on as
soon as he stepped
into the room."

—ANTONIO “L.A.” REID
The Epic executive describing
athen-14-year-old Justin
Bieber in his just-released
memoir. Sing to Me.

“ When you realize
your dad took your
mom to Red Lobster
every week."

—JOHN LEGEND

The R&B crooner reacting to
the "When he f— me good/I take
his ass to Red Lobster" line in
Beyonce's new single "Formation,"
captioning a picture of athoughtful-
looking President Obama.

"Who?"

— DEMARYIUS THOMAS

The Broncos receiver, after
being asked his favorite song
by halftime performer Coldplay
ata Super Bowl mediaevent.

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HEAR SAY

A LOOK AT WHO’S
SAYING WHAT IN MUSIC

— KIM KARDASHIAN

The reality star captioning a
selfie of herself and Amber Rose
on Instagram, after Kanye West,
Wiz Khalifa and Rose's instantly
infamous online war of words.

“Cruz, Trump & Rubio.
Rubba dub dub — 3
insecure, treacherous,
arrogant, indifferent,
insincere, aggressive,
sociopathic
narcissists in a tub."

— CHER

Thesingertalking politics on
Twitter after the Iowa caucus.

" This is football,
not Hollywood —

I thought it was
outrageous that
she used it as a
platform to attack
police officers."

— RUDY GIULIANI

New York's ex-mayor on Beyonce's
Black Panthers-inspired Super
Bowl performance on Fox News.

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WHAT TO GET THE IOVINES?

The wedding of Interscope and Beats founder Jimmy lovine, 62, to Liberty Ross, 37 (taking place Feb. 14 at David
Geffen's Beverly Hills mansion) likely has guests stressing over a suitable gift for a couple that already has it all.

New York wedding planner Marcy Blum, who has overseen nuptials for Billy Joel, LeBron James and others, says that a
meaningful present for 1 percenters requires a degree of creativity. "Clients like this — high profile and wealthy — don't
need you to get them a wine decanter or barware." Instead, try these three (likely) no-fail suggestions:

AN ANTIQUE

A restored
Bosendorfer piano
from the Vienna
Opera House is
perfect "for someone
who is vocal about
music's future," says
Blum. "It speaks to
music's agelessness."

$275,000;

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ARTWORK

Blum suggests
checking art
websites — like
Artsy, which
sells works by
Ross favorite
Alex Israel — for
presents that
have "longevity."

Price upon
request;
artsy.net

A DONATION

"Charity is always
meaningful," says
Blum. A good bet is
USC's Jimmy lovine
and Andre Young
Academy, funded by
a gift from lovine and
Dr. Dre (far right).

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of a Damien Hirst. For
exclusive video of Davis
talking about the guests
who have stayed there,
goto Billboard.com or
Billboard.com/ipad.

Whitney Houston sought solace there.
Aretha Franklin performed stand-up in
his theater. Alicia Keys debuted at his
piano. The industry legend opens up
his weekend home to share stories and
his latest passion — modern art

BY NANCY HASS

PHOTOGRAPHED BY DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN

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Style- AT HOME

- American Idyll
Windows in the main
house look out on 17 acres
of woodland as well as two
pools and a tennis court.
"This is heaven," says
philanthropist Barbara
Davis, afriend and
frequent guest.

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often a 50-hour workweek at
Sony Music Entertainment,
Clive Davis is just getting
started. At 4 p.m. on any
given Friday, the 83-year-old chief
creative officer is making sure everything
is arranged for the guests — there are
always guests — headed to meet him at
his 17-acre weekend compound in New
York’s northern Westchester County.

Is their transportation on time? Are
there fresh flowers in each of the eight
guest bedrooms? Is the 30-seat plush
home theater set up for the “absolutely
fantastic” show he has planned?

Leave it to other industry legends to
be jaded about their platinum-plated
lifestyles or cavil about the attention (and
house guests) that fame brings. After
50 years in the business, the five-time
Grammy winner, who guided the careers
ofJanis Joplin, Whitney Houston and
Aretha Franklin — she once performed a
comedy routine at Davis’ annual American
Idol-like Memorial Day party — loves
it all still, especially sharing his home,
his hospitality and his new collection of
blue-chip art.

“The greatest joy is to have people
here enjoying this place,” he says,
standing by the Yamaha grand piano
where Alicia Keys made her informal
debut for label executives in the light-
flooded contemporary house in Pound

Table Dressing

A Dale Chihuly triptych glass bowl that Davis
won at an auction sits on the kitchen eating area.
"I immediately fell in love with it," he says.

Ridge, an hour north of Manhattan. “I see
it through their eyes and it’s a pleasure
over and over.”

Davis fell in love with the Vuko
Tashkovich-designed house at first sight
in 1991, soon after his second divorce. He
had already settled on buying in the area;
he had long spent summer weekends in
the Hamptons with his family (he has
four grown children), and while he loved
the social whirl, he wanted somewhere
to escape to year-round. Northern
Westchester, where Martha Stewart,
Michael Douglas and Bruce Willis (who
purchased his own home for $9 million
in 2014) own huge spreads, was perfect
for Davis, a self-described “true foodie”
who likes to have every dinner out. The
Bedford Post Inn co-owned by Richard

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"It's like the house was designed around this painting," says
Davis of the Frank Stella that lives in the guesthouse. It was
one of his first modern art purchases, marking the beginning
of his foray into collecting. Also on display in Pound Ridge are
works by Alex Katz, Fernando Botero and Adolph Gottlieb.

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“My travels have been enhanced by looking
ZJ for pieces to furnish this house. It adds
another layer to how you view things.” -Davis I

Deco Decor

The vintage furniture,
artwork and cut glass
decanters in the dining room
all come from the legendary
marche aux puces," in Paris.
Actress-singer Patti LuPone
calls weekends at the
property "gracious, lively,
elegant, delicious."

Gere, with two top-rated restaurants, is
only a few miles away.

The 8,ooo-square-foot house
met Davis’ desire for “modern and
spacious,” with the added benefit of
calming views through huge walls
of glass. There were four graciously
proportioned bedrooms in addition to
his vast master suite. And a capacious
office for his commanding desk and the
awards he continues to accrue.

Most important, the house inspired
him to try something radical: Instead
of hiring a decorator, he would kit-out
the place himself. Designer Vicente
Wolf oversaw the interiors of the
6,ooo-square-foot guesthouse that
Davis added in 1999 and helped a bit
later on rearranging some of the main
house’s living room seating areas. But
it is “virtually all Clive,” says Wolf,
who has designed interiors for actress
Julianna Margulies and designer
Ralph Pucci. “He clearly enjoyed every
minute of doing it.”

“I figured that I would make buying
things part of my travels,” says Davis,
“part of the fun.” For a long stretch,
he made several trips a year to Paris
expressly to shop the famed upscale
puces, the antiques and flea market. He
fell in love with the elegant lines of Art
Deco: Throughout the house are glossy
examples of the period, including barrel
chairs and consoles in highly figured
grains of wood. He found pieces that
also would work in the guesthouse’s four
bedrooms, each of which was designed
to be unique “like the suites at the
Beverly Hills Hotel so that if you come
more than once, you can have a whole
new experience,” he says. Houston and
daughter Bobbi Kristina stayed there
once seeking a restorative weekend. (“It
was so therapeutic for them,” he says,
“they ended up staying an extra day.”)

Davis’ latest obsession is modern art.
When he first decorated the house, he
purchased some fairly valuable signed
lithographs (including Picasso), but
is now replacing those with what he

Let There Be Light

A hand-painted wedding trunk Davis
purchased inThailand addsaccent color
tothesun-filled, neutral-tone living
room, which looks out onto what Davis
calls "the glorious show of nature."

calls “real things.” In the past few years
he has added a giant spin-art work by
Damien Hirst in the entryway, as well
as works by Joan Mitchell, David Salle
and Louise Nevelson. Unlike many
ultra-wealthy neophytes entering the
world of high-end art, Davis eschews
using a consultant to help him make
decisions. What’s the joy in that? “I
peruse the auction house catalog,”
he says. “I learn so much and it just
gives me a thrill.” His talent in picking
winners — the essence of what has
made him a legend — has extended
to his new hobby, he says. A recent
reassessment of pieces for insurance
purposes valued them at four times what
he paid. “That isn’t why I am buying,”
says Davis, “but I admit it: It’s extremely
gratifying to be right.” O

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mega-promoters,
super-managers and
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on this year’s list,
and they all know
the answer: It’s the
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workday of
2016, Universal Music Group
chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge
flew to Las Vegas for CES, the
annual consumer electronics
show. For three days, Grainge and
a handful of his top executives
held almost nonstop meetings in a
suite at the Wynn Las Vegas with
electronics manufacturers, ad-tech
startups and consumer-goods
companies. One night, Grainge
co-hosted, with Conde Nast CEO
Robert Sauerberg, the annual
dinner put together by the high-
powered consultancy MediaLink,
which attracted top executives
from companies not normally
identified with the music business,
including GE, WPP and Unilever.
Grainge provided some music-
business cool in the form of a jazz
performance by Lady Gaga.

Record labels never have had
a major presence at CES, which
focuses on gadgets, not media.

But Grainge has made it a priority
to promote the value that his
7,500-employee company and its
artists can bring to other busi-
nesses — technology, marketing,
even film. The latest example: a
deal with iHeartMedia, announced
at CES, to develop virtual reality
content around UMG’s artists.

“I want us to help set up the
future and take advantage of the
opportunities that technology

and a global market give us,” says
Grainge, who moved from his
native London to Los Angeles in
2010 and took over UMG in 2011.
“We as music companies have to
be part of that conversation.”

Under Grainge, UMG has
become what may be the most
dominant company in the history
of the recorded-music business.

It boasted seven of 2015 ’s 10 best-
selling albums and 38.5 percent of
the year’s recorded-music sales,
according to Nielsen Music. It
has all five Grammy album of
the year nominees: Kendrick
Lamar, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd,
Chris Stapleton and Alabama
Shakes; the second-biggest music
publishing company; and a fast-
growing merchandising division
that has deals with The Beatles
and The Rolling Stones. Its core
business is growing — overall
revenue for the first three quarters
of 2015 increased 2.1 percent on
a currency-adjusted basis over
the same period in 2014 — and
parent company Vivendi recently
signaled its approval by extending
Grainge’s contract through 2020.

Streaming now accounts for
half of UMG’s digital revenue,
and Grainge wants to get the best
deals possible from technology
companies. “Everything that
we’re doing as an organization
is to create competition within
the market,” he says. A few
weeks ago, UMG announced a
licensing agreement that Grainge
hammered out with SoundCloud
CEO Alexander Ljung. The Berlin-
based startup plans to launch
a paid streaming service, and
the deal lets UMG reserve some
of its music for subscribers — a
provision important to Grainge
because of the precedent it sets for
other services. Sources say UMG
has had no long-term contract
with Spotify for months. (Although
both companies declined to
comment, they continue to do
business.)

“The reality is that we’re the
underdog in these discussions,”
says Grainge about negotiations
with tech firms. “These platforms
have access to their own
data, hundreds of millions of
consumers, and they’re structured
globally — and that’s really a first

for content delivery.”

Grainge, a former A&R
executive who worked with
acts from Eurythmics to Amy
Winehouse, still runs UMG as a
company that’s “dominated by
the creative process,” he says.
“The first conversation we have
every month is: ‘What do you
have to play me? What’s the hit?
What’s the next single?’ ” When
acts succeed, though, he wants
to leverage the resulting assets
in ways that go beyond sales and
subscriptions. UMG produced
the Oscar-nominated Winehouse
documentary Amy, and along with
corporate cousin StudioCanal has
invested in Lee Daniels’ just-
announced documentary on the
Apollo Theater, as well as Ron
Howard’s upcoming movie about
The Beatles. (UMG owns the
band’s recordings.)

Grainge — who has a son from
his first marriage and a daughter
and stepdaughter with his wife,

Caroline, with whom he lives in
Pacific Palisades, Calif. — made
it a point to forge connections
in Hollywood. “Lucian has built
powerful relationships in the world
of media and entertainment,”
says Jim Gianopulos, chairman/
CEO of Twentieth Century
Fox Film, a friend for six years.
Grainge has served on the board
of DreamWorks Animation since
2013, and his friends include such
media heavyweights as Snapchat
CEO Evan Spiegel and Eddy Cue,
who runs Apple’s Internet software
business. “He’s a Renaissance
man,” says Gianopulos, “with
both strong creative and business
instincts.” This year he’ll apply
those instincts, which have served
him so well in the music industry,
to other aspects of the media
business. “I want us to become
a multifaceted entertainment
company,” says Grainge. “I want us
to go from underdogs to being on
an equal footing.” -robert levine

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ON LUCIAN GRAINGE

“I’ve known Lucian for a while but we recently became
really close friends, and he is passionate, to
say the least. The way he follows through with
his vision is inspiring, and he keeps the team focused.”

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MICHAEL RAPINO, 50

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 2

MICHAEL RAPINO FELT it coming 30

years ago. That is when, at age 20,
the Thunder Bay, Ontario, native
booked his first artist, Jeff Healey,
and realized that what he loved
most about music wasn’t million-
selling records but “those magical
two hours” — the live show.

In the three decades since, as
Rapino has risen to the top post at
the world’s largest global concert-
promotion company, those two
hours have become the reliable
profit center of a music business
in disarray, “industry stories are
being written daily about what’s
going to happen on the recorded
side and the digital side,” says
Rapino. “We’re very proud that on
Live Nation’s side [2015 is] a record
revenue and ticket-selling year for
the third straight year.”

His pride is neither quiet
nor Canadian, and there’s no
reason it should be: Through
the third quarter of 2015, the
8,000-employee Beverly Hills-
based live-entertainment giant
reported revenue of $5.8 billion
(adjusted for currency-exchange
rates), up 9 percent from the
previous year. Primary ticket sales
through its Ticketmaster division
were up 4.7 percent to 115.4 million
for the same period, and according
to Billboard Boxscore, Live Nation
had 11 of the top 25 tours of 2015

— more than any other promoter

— with One Direction coming in at
No. 2 (total gross of $208 million
for 80 shows) and U2 at No. 3
($152 million gross at 76 arenas).

“People know Michael’s
reputation as a hugely successful
businessman, but see him at a
show and it’s clear what drives
him,” says Bono. “You’d think
every gig is his first, he’s such

a fan of live music. He’s a very
special guy — someone who has
dramatically transformed an entire
industry but has no drama about^
himself at all.”

The married father of three
— who maintains a reported
$14.8 million residence with wife
Jolene in Los Angeles’ affluent
Brentwood enclave — is as serious
about his health as he is about his
business. “My kids, my health and
my job are all equally important,”
he says. Rapino is a vegan who has
started every day for the past five
years with 10 minutes of morning
meditation. Maybe that’s one
reason why even without a lD or
U2 tour on the books for 2016, he’s
stress-free about the coming year.
“We’ve been public now 10 years,
and every year somebody always
[asks], ‘My God, where is the next
U2?’ ” he says. “I have zero concern
about the pipeline. We wouldn’t
have known who lD was five years
ago. We probably wouldn’t have
said that Taylor Swift was going
to blow out stadiums or that Luke
Bryan would be selling stadiums.”
But part of that confidence also
comes from the dividends already
being paid out from Rapino’s
aggressive strategy in the highly
profitable festival space. Since
he took the reins at Live Nation
three years ago, the company has
spent big on established festival
moneymakers, starting in 2013,
when it snapped up a stake in
EDM specialist Insomniac (and
its Electric Daisy Carnival) for an
investment estimated between
$50 million and $80 million.

In December 2014 a reported
$125 million bought a 51 percent
stake in C3 Presents, which
produces Lollapalooza globally.
Five months later, Live Nation
went for the hat trick with a
controlling stake in Bonnaroo,
the Manchester, Tenn., festival
that sells out to more than 80,000
fans annually, with gross receipts
estimated at $25 million. Key in
the Bonnaroo acquisition is a
permanent space — more than
700 acres of farmland about 60
miles southeast of Nashville —
from which new festivals can
be launched. Speculation runs
to country or EDM, though step
one, says Rapino, is tapping

Live Nation’s capital to upgrade but knows that the company’s
infrastructure. “We’re bringing in strength isn’t in content creation. A
water and permanent bathrooms,” partnership with Vice has yielded

he says. “Every festival meeting Live Nation TV, and Rapino reports
someone wants to talk about reaction to the beta site at CES in

another Ferris wheel, and at the January was “a big win” with core
end of the day [people] just want a customers like Budweiser and
really clean place to pee.” Citibank. “Being able to say we

With more than 800 sponsors, have a new channel launch with
Live Nation saw solid growth in rich video content from Vice was

its sponsorships and advertising very well received.”
division in 2015, reporting A frequent Rapino mantra is “we

$274.9 million in revenue through work for the artist,” though he also
the third quarter of 2015, a rise believes “the fan is always first.”

of 19 percent. The company “Our guiding principle,” he says,

renewed its concert live-streaming “is to make sure we do everything
partnership with Yahoo for a in our power to fulfill that promise.”

second year, after year one logged do you support a 2016

an average of roughly 369,000 presidential candidate? “I’m

viewers per concert and a grand a recently new American, so I’ve
total of 135 million live streams. only been able to vote since the last

Rapino says he thinks of Live election, and I’m socially liberal.

Nation’s more than 70 festivals Hillary Clinton would be the best

“Loyalty, hard work and thinking out of the box make the
perfect person to be in business with. That’s the guy I want
on my team. Michael Rapino is that guy ... He’s a rebel heart.’

and 25,000 shows as “studios'

option right now.

-JOE LEVY

"Be careful not
to breathe your
own exhaust/'

EDDY CUE, 51

SENIOR VP INTERNET &
SOFTWARE SERVICES, APPLE

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 10

JIMMY I0VINE, 62

EXECUTIVE, APPLE

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 5

ROBERT KONDRK, 54

VP APPLE’S MEDIA APPS &
CONTENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 10

TRENT REZNOR, 50

EXECUTIVE, APPLE

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

lovine photographed by Amanda
Friedman on Jan. 20 at The Culver
Hotel in Culver City. For an exclusive
interview and behind-the-scenes
video, go to Billboard.com or
Billboard.com/ipad. Opposite page,
from left: Cue, Kondrk and Reznor.

ON JUNE 21 , 2015, Eddy Cue
started Father’s Day with a brisk
awakening from Taylor Swift.
Rising, as he usually does, at 5 a.m.,
he discovered that the superstar
had written an open letter to Apple
on her Tumblr page to say she
would withhold 1989 from Apple
Music because the company wasn’t
planning to pay royalties during
the free, three-month trial period it
offers to attract subscribers. “This
is not about me,” Swift wrote. It
was about the creators “that will
not get paid for a quarter of a year’s
worth of plays.”

Cue immediately called “the
only other person I know who is
up that early” — Apple CEO Tim
Cook. Next was Jimmy Iovine,
the former producer and head
of Interscope Records who, with
Trent Reznor, joined Apple in 2014
to launch its on-demand streaming
service. Cue and Iovine called
the head of Swift’s label, Scott
Borchetta, and then the three of
them called Swift. Within hours,
Cue tweeted that Apple would pay
royalties on trial-period streams.

This rapid-fire maneuvering
didn’t merely head off a PR
disaster — it showcased the unique
combination of business savvy and
music-industry connections Apple
now commands with Cue, Iovine,
Reznor and Robert Kondrk on
one team. Iovine runs the creative
side with Reznor (neither have
official titles) from Apple Music’s
Culver City office, while Kondrk,
who lives in the Hollywood Hills
and splits his time between Culver
City and Apple’s Cupertino, Calif.,
headquarters, handles day-to-
day management and business
development. Iovine and Kondrk
report to Cue, who, in addition to
Apple Music and the iTunes Store,
oversees everything from Apple
Pay to Siri in Cupertino.

Apple has been the biggest music
retailer in the United States since
2008, and Billboard estimates

that last year, the tech giant was
responsible for 40 cents of every
dollar that music retailers and digi-
tal services paid to labels for U.S.
sales and streaming. But until 2015,
Apple’s power depended almost
entirely on download sales, which,
industrywide, declined 12.5 percent
last year, while total U.S. song
streams doubled. Its move into
streaming through the acquisition
of Beats Electronics, which brought
aboard co-founder Iovine and chief
creative officer Reznor, signaled
Apple’s intention to work with
labels and their artists at a time
when all parties have a vested
interest in Apple Music succeeding.

Iovine and Cue’s responsiveness
to Swift sent a pro-artist message —
and she reciprocated, giving her
1989 concert film to Apple Music
as a Christmas exclusive. (Says
Cue: “I think it surprised her
that someone would reach out
on Father’s Day.”) Drake and
Beats’ other founder, Dr. Dre,
also supplied short-term album
exclusives — a testament to the
company’s market share (and deep
pockets) and the relationships
Iovine developed in his 25 years
at Interscope. “I came to Apple
because they believe in artists
and understand what they do,”
says Iovine, who lives in Malibu
and Holmby Hills, Calif., with his
fiancee, British model Liberty Ross.
(They plan to marry on Feb. 14.)

Still, asked if he imagined working
in an office with Reznor back when
he first heard Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty
Hate Machine, Iovine, who later
signed the band, says, “I couldn’t
imagine that guy in my house!”

Labels like Apple Music because
it markets itself with a free trial
period instead of a free tier that
pays lower rates to rights-holders
on an ongoing basis. “Businesses
are being built on the backs of
musicians, songwriters, producers,
engineers,” says Iovine. “If we
had a free service, that would be

good for Apple, but not for artists
or songwriters.” Adds Reznor:
“We’re building an ecosystem
from the ground up to add value
back into music.”

Spotify, the leading proponent
of using a free tier to market a
subscription service, is estimated
to have at least 25 million paying
subscribers worldwide. After just
six months, Apple has 10 million,
partly thanks to its Beats 1 online
station and its DJs, who include
Zane Lowe, Drake, Dre, Elton
John and Pharrell Williams.

Perhaps more important, Apple
has direct access to 800 million
consumers — and their credit card
numbers — through iTunes. “The
future of music is streaming and
subscription, but that doesn’t mean
sales are going away,” says Cue.
“We can leverage that, and we do.”
There’s still plenty of opportunity
for Apple Music and its competitors
because the streaming business is
still, on a global basis, fairly small.
“The way I talk about it,” says
Kondrk, “we’re at the end of our
beginning.” -r.l.

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TAYLOIl SWIFT

ON JIMMY IOVINE

“The first time I spoke
to Jimmylovine,itwasona
5 a.m. conference call with
my management team
and the top guys at Apple.

Earlier that day, Father’s Dayto
be exact, I had written a blog post
criticizing Apple Music, the new
streaming service Jimmy had
worked tirelessly to create and
cultivate. The ‘Apple Letter’ went
viral. I rememberthinking, ‘Jimmy
Iovine must hate me right now.’ But
to my surprise, the voice I heard
on the other end of the phone was
jovial and thoughtful. He told me
that he thought those of us in the
industry speaking up about this
were right. Later on I would learn
that Jimmy was one of the voices
that advocated in my favor, and
i n favor of fai rly com pe nsating all

music creators for Apple’s three-
month free trial period.

“Since that day, I’ve gone on to
work with Jimmy and [Apple Music
original content director] Larry
Jackson on a concert film of The
1989 World Tour. The brainstorming
sessions and meetings about this
project were electric, with ideas
beingshared and bounced around
with such excitement. Jimmy is one
of those rare people who is thrilled
by doingwhathedoes everyday. His
energy is contagious.

"I’ll never knowwhat would’ve
happened if Jimmy hadn’t been
at Apple, factoring his industry
knowledge, humility and generosity
into the equation. But I do know
this: Jimmy respects the people
who make music, and in turn, has
become one ofthe most loved and
revered people in the music world.”

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DOUG MORRIS, 77

CEO, SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 7

By many measures, Doug Morris’ fifth year as CEO of Sony Music may
have been his most successful yet — revenue and operating income are
both significantly up, for instance, in a difficult climate.

But beyond the spreadsheet, the 50-year-plus industry veteran,
who has mentored Apple’s Jimmy Iovine, Atlantic’s Craig Kallman
and Republic’s Monte Lipman, among other top executives, can
claim ownership of the most transformative, feel-good and, prob-
ably, profit-generating storyline to emerge from the music industry in
the last decade: XL/Columbia’s Adele, whose 25 shattered first-week
sales records and finished 2015 selling 7.4 million copies. “Work is
a lot of fun when you have a hit like that,” says Morris, adding that
Sony has “re-upped Adele through signing a long-term contract to
license her records.” While 25 is still not on Spotify, Apple et ak, he
is bullish on streaming. “2016 will be a tipping-
point year, with everything becoming more

V transparent,” he says.

Sony also laid claim to the most
downloaded song of 2015, Mark Ronson’s
“Uptown Funk!,” featuring Bruno Mars,
which moved 5.5 million units.

THE BIGGEST ISSUE FACING THE RECORD
INDUSTRY “How can music subscription
services grow when there is still so much
free music available? Spotify has millions
of people going to their free tier. YouTube is
probably an even worse offender.”

A

CAM

ON DOUG MORRIS

“Doug is a songwriter at heart. He doesn’t chase trends.
Instead, he patiently waits for a song with ‘magic’ — a song
that unavoidably makes you feel something — and then it’s
full steam ahead. It’s heartwarming to have a ‘true north’ like
him in my corner, encouraging me to trust in my own music.”

MARTIN BANDIER, 74

CHAIRMAN/CEO, SONY/ATV
MUSIC PUBLISHING

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 4

As 2015 was ending,
longtime publishing kingpin
Martin Bandier faced an
uncommonly uncertain
future: Not only was Sony/
ATV’s ownership in doubt,
with equal stakeholders
Sony Corp. and the Michael
Jackson estate vying for
control, but he was with-
out a contract. “We are
dealing with an internal
corporate shareholder buy/
sell arrangement,” Bandier
told Billboard in January,
“although it’s not like the
company is for sale.”

In early 2016, though,
Bandier signed a new three-
year deal, keeping him
atop the industry’s leading
publisher no matter who
buys the company. It’s easy
to see why: In 2015, Sony/

ATV’s revenue grew to
$436 million in the first nine
months, from $409 million
in 2014, and it finished
the year with an estimated
30 percent market share.
Bandier, a married father
of three, also has assumed
a key leadership position
in fighting for better
songwriter compensation
from streaming companies
through direct deals — he
was the first publisher
to sign with Pandora —
and lobbying the U.S.
Department of Justice.
“Despite the industry
challenges, we continue to
grow our business,” he says.
“I am confident that we will
continue to be the world’s
leading publisher.”
collects “Baseball
memorabilia. My most
prized object is Jackie
Robinson’s signed
application to Major League
Baseball in 1947.”

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Founder, SB Projects

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President, Roc Nation

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President of Programming, BET Networks

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IRVING AZOFF, 68

CHAIRMAN/CEO, AZOFF
MADISON SQUARE
ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 3

Longtime power broker Azoff
ended 2015 by announcing
the creation of a new com-
pany, Oak View Group, with
Tim Leiweke. Once rivals,
he and Leiweke had run live
music — Azoff as the chairman
of Live Nation and Leiweke
as the CEO of Anschutz
Entertainment Group — until
both moved on three years ago.
Now, Leiweke and AzofFMSG
Entertainment — Azoff ’s joint
venture with Madison Square
Garden Company executive
chairman James Dolan — will
combine forces to leverage
the power of independently
managed stadiums and arenas
into a national sports and
entertainment footprint that
can optimize sponsorship
revenue and content-acquisition
power. It will also take on the
secondary-ticket market’s drain
of $8 billion away from artists,
promoters and venues. While
the only top management cli-
ent with a new studio album
was Don Henley, Azoff added
live powerhouses Jon Bon Jovi
and John Mayer (whose Dead
& Company will headline
Bonnaroo this summer) to a
roster that includes Fleetwood
Mac and the Eagles, while TV
(Gwen Stefani and Christina
Aguilera on The Voice ) remained
strong. Finally, two Azoff-
managed venues, Madison
Square Garden and The Forum
in Inglewood, Calif., were the
top-grossing U.S. arenas in 2015.

7

CORAN CAPSHAW, 57

FOUNDER, RED LIGHT MANAGEMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: C

As one of the few executives in the Power too
who doesn’t answer to a board, Capshaw cel-
ebrated his independence by quietly expanding
his empire: His management, touring, brand-
ing, venues, festivals, labels and merchandising
concerns are estimated to have grossed $1 bil-
lion-plus in revenue in 2015. But it’s not simply
the enviable earnings that give Capshaw his
standing: Between Red Light, the world’s largest
independent management firm, with close to
250 acts, and his ATO label, Capshaw-afRliated

artists received 27 Grammy nominations, led by
Chris Stapleton, Alabama Shakes and Sam Hunt,
plus country star Luke Bryan. Says Capshaw,
who lives with his wife on a working farm out-
side of Charlottesville, Va., “I find it personally
rewarding to help grow artists’ careers.”

Live music is at the heart of Capshaw’s brand:
He owns amphitheaters and clubs, plus pieces
of such music festivals as Bonnaroo, Outside
Lands, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits
Music Fest, and he partnered with Live Nation
in Nashville’s new Ascend Amphitheater. And if
you’re headed to South by Southwest, Capshaw
has a 25 percent stake in that, too.

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LEN BLAVATNIK, 58

VICE CHAIRMAN/OWNER, WARNER MUSIC GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 11

If Len Blavatnik isn’t the most powerful person
in music, he can take solace in the fact that
he’s the wealthiest: The Ukraine-born
industrialist is worth an estimated
$17 billion, and his privately held
Access Industries claims stakes
in Deezer and Spotify, plus
ownership of 4,000-employee
WMG. Blavatnik cites the 2015
breakthroughs of Twenty One Pilots,

England’s Jess Glynne and Germany’s Robin
Schulz as signs of Warner’s global prowess, but
it’s his First Access Entertainment joint venture
with manager Sarah Stennett that exemplifies
his synergistic vision. “We need to recapture
the true value of music,” he says. “It’s the
lifeblood of so many new experiences,
technologies and products — and the
industry should share more fully
in the success it helps to create.”
The married father of four lives in
London and New York, where, in
2015, he spent a record $77.5 million
for a Fifth Avenue co-op.

is, until Spotify later tweeted that its subscriber
growth in the last six months “was the fastest
ever.” Estimates put that figure at at least
25 million subscribers — more than any other
streaming service — and more than 75 million
active users. (No. 3 service Deezer had 3.8 million
revenue-generating customers as of June 2015.)

Ek, who lives in his native Stockholm with his
fiancee and their two children, shrugged off being
painted as the Blofeld-like villain in the debate
over “freemium,” and he continues to refine his
product. In June, Spotify acquired Seed Scientific,
a data-analytics startup, to further improve song
recommendations for listeners.

DANIEL EK, 32

CO-FOUNDER/CEO, SPOTIFY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 20

Despite a year in which Apple Music emerged as
a formidable competitor to Spotify and Taylor
Swift and Adele withheld their music from the
on-demand streaming service, Ek’s 7-year-old
platform came out on top. His characteristically
dry (and quickly deleted) “Oh ok” tweet in
response to Apple Music’s big bang of a June 2015
debut sounded ill-advised in January when it
emerged that Apple’s streaming service had
reached the 10 million subscriber mark — that

ROB LIGHT, 58

PARTNER/MANAGING
DIRECTOR/HEAD OF MUSIC,
CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 9

“The days of me screaming
over a stagehand bill” are
long gone, says the famously
energetic Light, whose 115
agents and executives in CAA’s
music division generated
t3.4billion in worldwide
touring revenue in 2015,
according to the agency. These
days, notes the married father
of five, “trying to break Twenty
One Pilots or reinvent Justin
Biebertakes real strategy.”

What are you most proud of
accomplishing in 2015?

First, havinganumberofthetop
tours, with One Direction, AC/

DC, Katy Perry, Fleetwood Mac,
James Taylor and Bette Midler.
Second, the number of breakout
new artists who are really starting
to sell tickets: Brantley Gilbert,
Sam Hunt, Meghan Trainor, Leon
Bridges and Tori Kelly.

Are you as aggressive in
business as you once were?

I’ve neverfought harder. I’m
the first one in the office in the
morning, last one to leave, and I
still get the question, “How do you
cover so many shows?” But I also
have been much more aggressive
in empowering my people.

I’m not going anywhere, but
delegating has freed me up to do
so many other things, whether it’s
signing Ariana Grande or helping
convince Lana Del Rey to do an
amphitheatertour.

How do you think live-music
executives fare on the
Power 100?

Alot ofpeoplethinkitshould be
all label presidents or publishers
because they “move the needle.”
But more money is coming out of
the live business than anywhere
else. When I look at the year’s top
breakout artists, it was because
oftouring. Live really iswherethe
music business is right now.

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BOB PITTMAN, 62

CHAIRMAN/CEO,

IHEARTMEDIA

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 8

The uncertain nature of the
radio business doesn’t faze
Pittman, the chairman/CEO
of a company that reaches
no million listeners each
week. “Plans can lull you
into a false sense of security.
It’s better to understand
the future is unknowable,”
says the world traveler
and licensed pilot who has
logged 6,500 flying hours.
That attitude could serve
him well in 2016. Revenue
dipped only 1.7 percent,
to $4.5 billion, through
September, but deep debt
could reportedly lead to a
financial restructuring.
BIGGEST PROBLEM FACING
radio “Getting advertising
dollars in proportion to
the impact we have. Only
75 percent of millennials
watch TV. Radio still reaches
93 percent of millennials and
adults, yet few advertisers
have adjusted their plans.”

MICHELE ANTHONY, 59

EXECUTIVE VP,

UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 12

BOYD MUIR, 56

EXECUTIVE VP/CFO,
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 12

UMG maintained its
38.5 percent market share in
2015 while the pair, as Boyd
puts it, focused on “helping
[chairman/CEO] Lucian
[Grainge] execute his vision
for the company.” Initiatives
by the duo included revising
its digital structure, and
bringing in Jay Frank to
develop a playlist strategy
and producers David
Blackman and Scott Landis
to head its new film, TV and
theater arm.

STEPHEN COOPER, 69

CEO, WARNER MUSIC GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 14

“We have done a lot by way
of globalizing our business,”
says Cooper, who also grew
digital revenue 6.3 percent,
to $1.3 billion, in calendar
year 2015, a year in which
overall industry digital sales
fell. WMG doesn’t break
out streaming revenue,
but Cooper says that “it
overtook downloads.”

2016 CANDIDATE “I don’t
have a candidate yet, [but]
the way the process has been
shaken up this year is good
for the country. Politicians
are beginning to understand
that they shouldn’t treat the
people who elected them
like village idiots.”

ROB STRINGER, 53

CHAIRMAN/CEO,
COLUMBIA RECORDS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 17

In 2015, Stringer witnessed
the fourth-quarter sunset
of One Direction and the
critically acclaimed fall
debut of R&B artist Leon
Bridges, but his year was
defined by the November
release of Adele’s album
25. The married father of
two girls says strategizing
began last summer “for
what we knew was going
to be a good run.” It was
time well spent: One in 33
albums bought in 2015 was
a copy of 25, amounting
to 7.4 million units sold.

The blockbuster boosted
Columbia’s market share
two points to 12.5 percent
(factoring in releases by
its RED distribution arm).
Stringer credits the feat to a
“process that combines old-
school musical touches with
a postmodern digital plan.”
Or, in other words, “We
didn’t f— it up.”

AVERY LIPMAN, 49

PRESIDENT/COO, REPUBLIC RECORDS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 15

MONTE LIPMAN, 51

CHAIRMAN/CEO, REPUBLIC RECORDS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 15

In its 20th year, Republic Records, with a roster that
includes The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Drake and Nicki
Minaj (both through Cash Money) and Taylor Swift (through
Big Machine) owned 11.7 percent of the market and
dominated Billboard ’ s year-end charts. The Universal Music
Group-owned label, which is run by the brothers Lipman,
topped nearly 60 chart-topping categories, including Top
Label, Top Hot 100 Label, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Label and
Top Adult Top 40 Label. Monte says success comes from
creating space for imaginations to wander by eliminating
structured meetings and conference calls: “Our best
decisions are made in the hallway.” Avery’s goal for the
future is to sign “artists that can really touch all corners of
the world,” something that he acknowledges has become
increasingly difficult, “it’s getting harder and harder to
break new acts. For a company like ours, whose lifeblood
depends upon breaking new artists, it always has been the
hardest thing, but it seems to be getting even harder.”

ARTIST WITH WHOM HE’D TRADE PLACES AVERY: “jack
Johnson. His priorities from the first time we met were ‘I am
who I am, and I have a lifestyle and things I care about.’ ”

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Power in not given

it in taken.

Monte (left) and
Avery Lipman
photographed by
Wesley Mann on
Sept. 24, 2015,
in New York's
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MARC GEIGER, 53

PARTNER/HEAD OF MUSIC
WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 13

Under Geiger’s watch,
the too agents in WME’s
music department booked
some 35,000 dates in 2015,
up from 33,000 in 2014.
Among the agency’s top
performers at the box office
and festivals (where WME
claimed more than half the
major headliners in 2015)
were The Weeknd, Drake,
Florence & The Machine
and Luke Bryan. Geiger
says spurring growth in his
department in 2015 involved
“making sure every room
in the house is optimized.”
WME’s hip-hop division, for
example, added Grammy
winners Macklemore &
Ryan Lewis and Run the
Jewels. Other key signings
included Maroon 5, Haim
and Brett Eldredge.

BIGGEST ISSUE FACING THE
TOURING INDUSTRY “The
issues related to the live
business are dwarfed by
those in the recording-
streaming-collections
business, [but] there’s a
major ticketing issue —
regarding pricing versus
actual demand — that needs
a lot of work.”

STEVE GARNETT, 63

CHAIRMAN/CEO,
CAPITOL MUSIC GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 16

Capitol Music Group started
2015 with a Grammy sweep
of the top four categories
by Sam Smith and Beck
and ended the year with
strong breakthroughs by
developing artists like
Silento, best new artist
Grammy nominee Tori Kelly
and Halsey, who already
has sold out her date at
New York’s Madison Square

WIZ KHALIFA

ON JULIE GREENWALD AND CRAIG HALLMAN

“Julie and Craig have the most f— ing creative and
innovative way of approaching the biz. They're
team players who help bring my vision to life in a fun, new
way. Plus, they always let me roll up wherever.”

grosses totaling $1 billion, up
from $923 million in 2014.
The company also handled
Taylor Swift’s 1989 Tour
— the year’s biggest, with
a $217 million gross — and
huge runs from The Rolling
Stones ($131 million), Kenny
Chesney ($114 million),
Shania Twain ($65 million)
and the second year of Eric
Church’s Outsiders Tour
($30 million). Although
he’s got The Stones and
another top-shelf act,

Carrie Underwood, on the
road in 2016 as insurance,
Marciano likens touring
to the recording business.

“if you have a hit tour, it’s
fantastic. If it’s not, you’re
losing money.”

JULIE GREENWALD*

CHAIRMAN/COO, ATLANTIC
RECORDS GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 21

Garden in August. “There’s
a tremendous focus on our
A&R,” says Barnett. He has
increased Capitol’s market
share in each of his three
years at the helm, bringing it
to 8.1 percent in 2015. With
former Columbia Records
colleague Ashley Newton
onboard as CMG president,
Barnett will focus more on
marketing in the coming
year, which, he says, “is
really at the heart of what I
always did.”

8 JODY GERSON, 54

CHAIRMAN/CEO, UNIVERSAL
MUSIC PUBLISHING GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 28

A year into her tenure,
Gerson, named Billboard’s
2015 Women in Music
Executive of the Year,
oversaw 20 new signings,
including Ariana Grande
and Shawn Mendes, but
counts extending Adele’s
contract as her biggest

achievement. “It was not
easy,” she recalls. The early
Belieber also scored with
the No. 1 success of Justin
Bieber’s Purpose, “ifeel
vindicated,” she says. “I
always knew he was going
to make a comeback.” One
of Gerson’s first gambits in
her new role was the March
signing of breakout singer-
songwriter and Adele
collaborator Tobias Jesso Jr.
to a seven-figure deal.
“That one was thrilling,”
she says. “It showed me
that I could still identify
and nurture talent, which
were the things that got me
this job.”

JAY MARCIANO, 61

COO, ANSCHUTZ
ENTERTAINMENT GROUP;
CHAIRMAN, AEG LIVE

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 19

Under Marciano, AEG Live,
the largest festival producer
in North America, reported

CRAIG HALLMAN, 50

CHAIRMAN/CEO, ATLANTIC
RECORDS GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 21

Atlantic’s tag-team leaders
had two of the year’s top to
albums, Ed Sheeran’s X
— No. 4, with 2.2 million
physical and digital album-
equivalent units sold — and
Fetty Wap’s self-titled debut
(No. to). Other notable
releases included LPs from
Coldplay, Ty Doha Sign and
Hamilton, which had the
highest Billboard 200 bow
for a cast album since 1963.
Priorities for 2016: Missy
Elliott’s first LP in 11 years
and Charlie Puth’s solo
album debut.

2016 INDUSTRY PREDICTION
kallman: “We [recently]
saw a big industry push into
dance and electronic. I think
the pendulum will swing
back a bit more to hip-hop
and rock — both separately
and together.”

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"Attitude
and

gratitude.

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GUY OSEARY, 43

CO-FOUNDER, MAVERICK

LAST YEAR’S RANK: IS

Fifteen months after
Oseary formed Maverick,
a consortium of nine top
managers and their artists,
including Alicia Keys,
Pharrell Williams and Nicki
Minaj, Oseary’s big earners
of 2015 were U2, which
raked in $152 million for
the year on its Innocence
+ Experience Tour, and
Madonna’s ongoing
Rebel Heart Tour, which
grossed $88 million for the
same period. Oseary also
signed comedy sensation
and Trainwreck star Amy
Schumer, who’s set to play
New York’s Madison Square
Garden in June.

BIGGEST ISSUE FACING THE
record industry “There’s
not enough innovation or
chance-takers in the music
business. We have a lot of
the same exact people in
control doing the same exact
thing over and over again,
even though we all know it
isn’t going to work.”

SCOTT BORCHETTA, 53

PRESIDENT/CEO, BIG
MACHINE LABEL GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 23

Borchetta says he wrapped
up 2015 with four goals
accomplished: Getting
Taylor Swift five No. 1
Mainstream Top 40 singles
off 1989 (a sixth is now being
promoted), landing her
key Grammy nods (she has
seven), breaking Thomas
Rhett bigger at radio — latest
single “Die a Happy Man” is
the first to log six weeks atop
the Country Airplay chart
since Swift’s “Our Song”
did in 2008 — and securing
Cheap Trick a 2016 entry
into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. The year ahead

ARK

ON TOM CORSON AND PETER EDGE

“To put it mildly, my albums haven’t always been the most
U.S. radio-ready. When Jeff Bhasker was crafting
Uptown Special, I was constantly thinking that I wanted to
give Peter and Tom a record they could do something
with to show them it wasn’t pointless sticking by me.”

will see Big Machine release
a new Cheap Trick album
in April and, possibly, new
music from Swift, although
Borchetta says the decision
is entirely in her hands.
“Whatever the call is —

‘Hey, I’ve got a new record,’
or ‘Hey, I’m going to take a
year off’ - will be completely
acceptable,” he says. “She’ll
know.” Whether she has a
high profile in 2016 or not,
Borchetta will: He’s reprising
his role as American Idol’s
mogul/mentor for the
show’s final season.

2 TOM CORSON, 55

PRESIDENT/COO,

RCA RECORDS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 31

PETER EDGE, 54

CHAIRMAN/CEO,

RCA RECORDS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 31

For RCA heads Edge and
Corson, the year was about
breaking artists, which Edge

calls “the lifeblood of our
business.” Mark Ronson,

Elle King and Wolf Alice all
landed Grammy nods, while
debuts from Bryson Tiller
and R. City each produced
top 15-charting singles on
the Hot 100. The year ahead
appears strong with Kygo
and Zayn Malik set to release
solo LPs. “If you want to
talk about true power,” adds
Corson, “break some artists.
That’s power.”

MICHAEL MAHAN, 39

PRESIDENT, DICK CLARK
PRODUCTIONS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 25

ALLEN SHAPIRO, 60

CEO, DICK CLARK
PRODUCTIONS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 25

Shapiro and Mahan pack
their awards shows with
big moments, and the
results show. The Academy
of Country Music Awards
(staged in front of 70,000

at AT&T Stadium in Dallas)
was up 10 percent in
viewership to 16 million,
and the Billboard Music
Awards — which premiered
Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”
video and had the Kanye
West performance that
MTV’s Video Music Awards
didn’t get — were at a
14-year high with 12 million
viewers. “We live in an
era in which you have very
little time to succeed. We
have to create shows that
bring a younger demo to
a medium that they’re
spending less and less time
at,” says Shapiro. ( Billboard
and DCP are both owned
by Prometheus Global
Media.)

JOHN JANICK, 37

CHAIRMAN/CEO,

INTERSCOPE GEFFEN A&M

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 24

Jimmy Iovine’s hand-
picked successor has a
big baseball cap to fill but
continued to put his own
stamp on Interscope after
taking over in late May
2014. The label released
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp
a Butterfly (11 Grammy
nods, massive critical
praise and inspiration for
David Bowie’s final album,
Blackstar) and nurtured
breakthrough LPs from
Selena Gomez and Tame
Impala. It also benefited
from Dr. Dre’s Compton,
which has generated more
than 61 million on-demand
audio streams.

ISSUE FACING THE
RECORDING INDUSTRY “We
should be able to get people
to spend $10 [for a monthly
subscription] , but when
they can get music for free
on YouTube, we have to
figure out how we’re going to
engage better.”

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RICH LEHRFELD

American Express Senior Vice President, Global Advertising, Media & Sponsorships

NAMED ONE OF:

Billboard's Power 100

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JENNIFER

BREITHAUPF

MANAGING DIRECTOR
OF MEDIA,
ADVERTISINGS.
GLOBAL

ENTERTAINMENT, CITI

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 22

more than 6,500 music

Few bring fans closer
to their favorite artists
than Breithaupt. She
worked with nearly 1,500
performers and provided
access to more than half
of the top 100 tours and

events and experiences
in 2015, resulting in
double-digit growth
year- over-year in both
ticket sales and ticket
revenue. Citi spent an
estimated $100 million on
music-related properties,
including a $19 million
deal with NBC’s Today.

Citi replaced Toyota as
sponsor of the Today
concert series in 2015.
What was the thinking
behind the partnership?
It was an easy decision.
The sponsorship provides

year-round opportunities for
millions of Citi customers,
Todayviewersandfans
to experience live music
through a multitude of
platforms: on-air, digital
and social, and experiences
rangi ng from VI P access to
exclusive meet-and-greets.

What is Citi’s new focus on
providing “access beyond
attendance”?

We’re placing an emphasis
on experiences customers
can enjoy from home. In
2015, we worked with a
range of artists through our
Backstage With Citi series [on

Yahoo], which offers behind-
the-scenes backstage access
and interviews.

Citi continues to expand
ticket presales through
Citi Private Pass. What
results have you seen?

In 2015, we promoted
presales in 11 countries,
including the United
Kingdom, China, Singapore,
Australia and Taiwan,
with artists ranging from
Madonnato Katy Perry
and Maroon 5. There is a
huge demand from Citi
cardmembers — most
notably in Asia.

ARTHUR FOGEL, 62

PRESIDENT, LIVE NATION
GLOBAL TOURING;
CHAIRMAN, LIVE NATION
GLOBAL MUSIC

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 26

The reigning king of the
megatour, Fogel generated
more than $300 million in
box-office revenue from
185 shows that played to
2.6 million concertgoers
in 2015. U2’s Innocence +
Experience Tour wrapped
in Paris with a cumulative
gross of $152 million and
attendance of 1.3 million.
Teed up for 2016: Sting and
Peter Gabriel’s Rock Paper
Scissors Tour.

BIGGEST ISSUE FACING THE
LIVE INDUSTRY “The strength
of the U.S. dollar against
other currencies.”

TOM POLEMAN, 51

PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL
PROGRAMMING PLATFORMS,
IHEARTMEDIA

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 29

JOHN SYKES, 60

PRESIDENT OF ENTERTAINMENT
ENTERPRISES, IHEARTMEDIA

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 29

iHeartRadio had its best
ratings in 10 years, says
Poleman, up 7 percent
with listeners 12 and
older — it reaches a total

weekly audience of about
110 million — compared
with the industry average of
3 percent. The programming
chief, who also co-produces
iHeart’s many live and
TV events with the well-
connected Sykes, credits
its On the Verge program
for helping to break Rachel
Platten and X Ambassadors.

MIKE DUNGAN, 61

CHAIRMAN/CEO, UNIVERSAL
MUSIC GROUP NASHVILLE

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 33

Dungan’s division, which
carries top seller Luke
Bryan and critical darling
Kacey Musgraves, held the
Top Country Albums No. 1
slot for 30 weeks with Sam
Hunt’s and Chris Stapleton’s
debut LPs accounting for
12 of them. The freshmen
also vied for new artist
honors at the Country
Music Association Awards
(Stapleton won) and are up
for key all-genre Grammys.
collects “I have 1,000
baseballs, autographed by
John F. Kennedy, Frank
Sinatra, Woody Allen.”

SCOOTER BRAUN, 34

FOUNDER, SB PROJECTS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 41

Braun’s proudest

professional moments
of the past year go by the
names Justin Bieber, Tori
Kelly and Carly Rae Jepsen.
Bieber has resided near the
top of the Billboard 200
since releasing Purpose
in November — his fifth
million-selling album. Kelly
is up for a best new artist
Grammy, and Jepsen had
a radio hit with “I Really
Like You” and impressed as
Frenchy in Fox’s Grease Live!
Braun also expanded into
film and TV (he’s a producer
of CBS’ Scorpion ).

2016 candidate “Hillary
Clinton. I was proud to have
her at my house.”

JON PLATT, 51

CEO, WARNER/CHAPPELL

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 46

As Warner/Chappell rises,
so does Platt. Promoted to
CEO in November, he’ll
add chairman duties in
May. In third-quarter 2015,
the publisher captured
19.4 percent of the top 100
radio songs — its highest
since Billboard began
tracking that market-share
measure — due in part to
songwriters Julia Michaels
and Justin Tranter (Justin
Bieber ’s “Sorry,” Selena
Gomez’s “Good for You”)

and Twenty One Pilots.
Capping the year: multiple
Grammy nods for Kendrick
Lamar and Chris Stapleton.

MARTY DIAMOND, 57

HEAD OF EAST COAST MUSIC,
PARADIGM TALENT AGENCY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

CHIP HOOPER, 53

WORLDWIDE HEAD OF MUSIC,
PARADIGM TALENT AGENCY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 36

PAUL MORRIS, 44

FOUNDER/PRESIDENT,

AM ONLY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

TOM WINDISH, 43

FOUNDER/PRESIDENT,

THE WINDISH AGENCY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 98

Partnering with Windish
brought its 750-act roster

— including Diplo, alt-J,
Courtney Barnett and Lorde

— into Paradigm’s fold,
which now encompasses
2,200 clients booked by 115
agents. A 2012 pact with
Morris’ EDM heavyweight
AM Only continues to
pay off, with Skrillex and
DJ Snake reaching new
heights.

HIDDEN MUSICAL TALENT

morris: “I was half of the
DJ duo Monkey Allan. We
performed at private events
for a lot of money.”

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JOEL A. KATZ, 71

CHAIRMAN, GLOBAL MEDIA &
ENTERTAINMENT GROUP,
GREENBERG TRAURIG

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 32

Katz handled some of the
industry’s biggest deals,
including negotiating the
sale of George Strait’s Muy
Bueno publishing company
to Hearts Bluff Music and
re-upping Big Machine’s
distribution agreement with
Universal. He also mediated
on behalf of more than 30
senior industry executives,
including Sony Nashville’s
top 2015 hires.

COLLECTS “Davidoff Dom
Perignon cigars.”

BRIAN MCANDREWS, 56

CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT/CEO,

PANDORA

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 40

TIM WESTERGREN, 50

FOUNDER/DIRECTOR,

PANDORA

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 40

While listener growth
stalled with Apple Music’s
late-June arrival, Pandora
had “a watershed year,”
says Westergren. It paid
$467 million in royalties
through the third quarter,
and signed direct deals
with labels, publishers
and performing rights
organizations to aid global
expansion and an upcoming
on-demand service. Pandora
also purchased Ticketfly
for $450 million to connect
listeners to live events.
ARTIST WITH WHOM HE’D
TRADE PLACES WESTERGREN:
“Questlove. He’s like a
planet everyone is orbiting.”

CAMERON STRANG, 49

CHAIRMAN/CEO, WARNER
BROS. RECORDS; CHAIRMAN,
WARNER/CHAPPELL

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 27

In May, Jon Platt completes

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his transition to chairman/
CEO ofWarner/Chappell,
which should enable
Strang to bolster Warner
Bros.’ roster. Jason Derulo
continues to shine — he sold
1.8 million downloads of
his hit “Want to Want Me”
in 2015 — as does Grammy
nominee and “Rise Up”
singer Andra Day. The
coming year also should
see albums from veteran
acts Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Linkin Park and Green Day.

HARTWIG MASUCH, 61

CEO, BMG

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 42

After years of expansion,
2015 was relatively quiet
for BMG. “it was about
consolidation and solidifying
our position,” says Masuch,
who nevertheless oversaw
about 20 acquisitions,
including S-Curve and
Rise Records. The deals
contributed to the publisher
and label registering double-
digit growth in revenue and
profit, making it the No. 4
industry player behind
Universal, Sony and Warner.
HIDDEN MUSICAL TALENT
Put out three records as the
singer of new wave band
The Ramblers.

ROBERT KYNCL, 45

CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER,
YOUTUBE

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 43

Kyncl and his team
launched subscription
service YouTube Red in
2015, amending millions of
contracts written for its ad-
supported YouTube service
to provide for the paid tier.
They also unveiled three
vertical apps, consolidated
the Google Play/YouTube
teams and in March saw per-
day viewership numbers rise
40 percent year over year.

The Live Nation Power 100
team, from left: Wavra,

Russell Wallach (No. 43),

Fogel (No. 26), Zedeck, Rapino
(No. 2), O'Connell, Roux,

Jared Smith (No. 43) and
Campana photographed by
Smallz + Raskind on Jan. 21 at
The Wiltern in Los Angeles.

These five executives
generated an estimated
$i billion in gross revenue
for Live Nation’s core
business of live music.
Campana and Roux
promoted more than 3,500
shows in North America by
a wide range of A-list acts —
Fleetwood Mac, Nicki Minaj
and One Direction among
them — that sold 28 million-
plus tickets in 2015, up from
25 million in 2014 and the
fourth consecutive annual
increase in sales. O’Connell,
who is country music’s top
promoter, presented 600
shows and launched new
festivals in Chicago (Windy
City LakeShake) and New
York (Farmborough). Wavra,
who plotted One Direction’s
global two-year run, which
grossed $500 million, reigns
as pop’s top promoter and
one of the stars of Zedeck’s
team, which presented
approximately 25,000
live shows for 60 million
fans in 2015.

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MARK CAMPANA, 58

CO-PRESIDENT OF NORTH
AMERICA CONCERTS,

LIVE NATION

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 55

BRIAN O’CONNELL, 50

PRESIDENT, LIVE NATION
COUNTRY MUSIC

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 37

BOB ROUX, 58

CO-PRESIDENT OF NORTH
AMERICA CONCERTS,

LIVE NATION

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 55

BRAD WAVRA, 61

SENIOR VP TOURING,

LIVE NATION

LAST YEAR’S RANK: ■

DAVID ZEDECK, 51

EXECUTIVE VP/PRESIDENT OF
GLOBAL TALENT & ARTIST
DEVELOPMENT„LIVE NATION

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PRESIDENT/CEO,

GOLDENVOICE

ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR'S RANK: 47

With parent company AEG
Live building a portfolio of
festivals that now numbers
30, Tollett’s stock has
risen. His resume includes
Coachella, which grossed
$84.2 million in 2015, and
Stagecoach ($21.8 million) —
evidence that Tollett has
cracked the code on curating
multistage events.

JOHN BRANCA, 65

PARTNER,

ZIFFREN BRITTENHAM

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 45

In October, Branca,
co-executor of Michael
Jackson’s estate, became
a key player in a major
ongoing music-publishing
transaction when Sony
Corp. triggered a clause to
either sell its 50 percent
stake in Sony/ATV, the
music publisher it co-owns
with the estate, or buy the
other half. It’s a win-win
for Branca: If he doesn’t
orchestrate the estate’s
purchase of Sony/ATV,
which generated revenue
of about $1.2 billion in 2015,
he’ll deliver a huge payday
to the King of Pop’s heirs.

ANDRE J. FERNANDEZ, 47

PRESIDENT, CBS RADIO

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

After almost 20 years away,
the Brooklyn native returned
to New York in April to take
the helm of the nation’s
third-largest radio group.
He’s now overseeing 117
stations in 26 markets, and
after a round of layoffs and
restructuring, Fernandez
says he’s working to create
“more of a culture of
innovation and risk taking.”

As Adele’s manager,
Dickins oversaw the
record-breaking
success of her album
25, which sold
7.4 million copies in
the United States in
just seven weeks. His
roster also includes
London Grammar
and producer
PaulEpworth.

What do you
considerto be your
biggest business
achievement in
2015?

[At the risk of] stating
the obvious, it’s the
Adele comeback. To
come back with good
music and have people

embrace it the way that
theydid.

What were the
challenges in
building the
campaign?

The music industry
is a simple game that
can be complicated
by idiots. If you get the
music right, you’ve got
half ashot. The most
importantthingwas
making sure Adele was
given time and allowed
a creative environment
without pressure.

What is the biggest
issue facing the
industry in 2016?

Not puttingout enough

good records. There is
a “short-term-ism” in
the music business. If
you have a short-term
focus, unfortunately
you’re goingtoget
short-term results.

Did you and Adele
exchange gifts
following 25?

You’re going to get me
in trouble. She’sthe
most generous person
and got me a very nice
watch case. Being a
typical bloke, I haven’t
got heranythingyet,
but I know what I
am getting her. The
problem is that it will
probably come in
f — ingJune.

FOUNDER, SEPTEMBER
MANAGEMENT

JARED SMITH, 38

PRESIDENT, TICKETMASTER
NORTH AMERICA

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 94

RUSSELL WALLACH, 50

PRESIDENT, MEDIA &
SPONSORSHIP,

LIVE NATION

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 44

Wallach had a big year at
Live Nation: Sponsorship
and advertising, which
included marketing
partnerships with Snapchat,
Vice and Hilton hotels,
was up 19 percent, to
$274.9 million, through
the third quarter of 2015.
And even before Smith and

Ticketmaster put tickets
for Adele’s tour on sale
in December, ticketing
revenue was up 9 percent,
to $1.2 billion, through the
third quarter, and primary
ticket sales rose 4.7 per-
cent, to 115.4 million. An
antitrust lawsuit that fan
ticket app Songkick brought
against Ticketmaster and
Live Nation in January 2016
generated headlines — as
did a critical report on ticket
scalping issued weeks later
by the New York attorney
general — but the develop-
ments have yet to affect
Ticketmaster’s bottom line.

KEVIN KELLEHER, 57

EXECUTIVE VP/CFO, SONY
MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 54

DENNIS HOOKER, 48

PRESIDENT, GLOBAL DIGITAL
BUSINESS & U.S. SALES, SONY
MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 54

JULIE SWIDLER, 57

EXECUTIVE VP BUSINESS
AFFAIRS/GENERAL COUNSEL,
SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 54

As part of the corporate
team steering Sony Music,
Kelleher kept profits up,
while Kooker spurred
growth through acquisitions
of The Orchard and indie
label Century Media.

Swidler helped SME CEO
Doug Morris assemble a
new Nashville team while
running the division in the
first half of 2015. SME ended
the year with 29.5 percent of
the market, up one point.

SCOTT GREENSTEIN, 56

PRESIDENT/CHIEF CONTENT
OFFICER, SIRIUSXM

LAST YEAR’S RANK: SO

Greenstein played a leading
role in the deal that will keep
Howard Stern on SiriusXM
at least through 2020. He
also oversaw a programming
strategy that helped
grow the satellite radio
service’s subscriber base to
29.6 million — up 2.3 million
— making SiriusXM a
de rigueur stop for artist
promotion. Even Adele
did her first U.S. media
appearance — a town hall
with subscribers — at its New
York studio. “Labels have
seen that if we get behind
a record, we can force
terrestrial [radio] to follow,”
says Greenstein. The Stern
deal includes launching a
video component — a hint of
diversification to come?

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ADAM HARTER, 44

VP MARKETING & CULTURAL
CONNECTIONS, PEPSI
BEVERAGES NORTH AMERICA

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

Harter, who spent an
estimated $50 million
to $75 million on music
sponsorship in 2015,
added a Live Nation deal
(sponsorship of three
music festivals; pouring
rights at 70-plus venues)
and Fox’s Empire to a
roster that includes the
Super Bowl halftime show
and the Grammys. The
groundbreaking Empire buy
actually integrated a Pepsi
ad into the storyline of the
midseason finale, generating
2 billion-plus earned media
impressions valued at more
than $30 million.

OLIVER EL-KHATIB, 32

FOUNDER, OVO;
CO-MANAGER, DRAKE

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

OVO Sound, the label Drake
established with longtime
associate El-Khatib, scored
big with What a Time to Be
Alive , the surprise mixtape
from Drake and Future that
gave each a second entry
atop the Billboard 200 in
2015. Drake also released
singles on SoundCloud,
including “Hotline Bling,”
which peaked at No. 2 on
the Hot 100 and became
a viral video sensation.
Releases from Roy Woods
and ILoveMakonnen added
to the label’s luster.

STEVE BARTELS, 52

CEO, DEF JAM RECORDINGS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 51

Anticipated albums from
Kanye West and Frank
Ocean didn’t materialize in
2015, but Bartels still had a
power year thanks to Justin
Bieber, Big Sean and Alessia

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ON STEVE BARTELS

“Steve breaks the stereotype of the whole ‘big and scary
executive' thing. Although extremely smart and professional,
he’s still a giant teddy bear. He’s always giving handwritten
notes to people and blasting music from his office.

He’s a people person, a father and cares about his team.”

Cara. Comeback kid Bieber
scored his first Hot too No. 1
with “What Do You Mean?”
and broke the record for
most simultaneous Hot too
hits (17). The new year
started strong with Cara’s
“Here” hitting No. 5 on the
Hot 100 and West’s new
album finally scheduled for
a Feb. 11 release.

RICHARD GRIFFITHS, 61

CO-FOUNDER,

MODEST! MANAGEMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 39

HARRY MAGEE, 56

CO-FOUNDER,

MODEST! MANAGEMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 39

The U.K.-based Griffiths
and Magee oversaw global
tours from two of 2015 ’s
biggest ticket-movers — One
Direction and 5 Seconds
of Summer — that grossed
more than $208 million and
$38.5 million, respectively.
iD’s indefinite hiatus has

spurred breakup talk, and
though Modest! no longer
represents Harry Styles and
Zayn Malik, Magee says
his firm will “definitely”
manage other members
in their forthcoming
solo careers.

ALLEN GRUBMAN, 73

PARTNER, GRUBMAN,
SHIRE & MEISELAS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 49

KENNY MEISELAS, 59

PARTNER, GRUBMAN,

SHIRE & MEISELAS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 49

Kings of multiplatforming
Grubman and Meiselas,
lawyers to Lady Gaga, Elton
John and 2015 chart-topper
The Weeknd, oversaw deals
for Nicki Minaj’s upcoming
Freeform cable TV show,
Nicki, and Usher’s role in
the 2016 film Hands of Stone.
“You used to have music
lawyers, movie lawyers,
sports lawyers, but now

you have to do it all,” says
Grubman.

COLLECTS MEISELAS:
“Sneakers. For my birthday
The Weeknd gave me a
pair of Air Jordan Cement 3
Retros.”

DENNIS ARFA, 66

CEO, ARTIST GROUP
INTERNATIONAL

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 48

Arfa’s marquee client Billy
Joel recently sold out the
32nd show of his monthly
Madison Square Garden
residency, and the 30 shows
he played nationally in 2015
— including a headlining
gig at Bonnaroo — raked in
$68.4 million. Arfa runs one
of the biggest independent
booking agencies, which
also represents Neil Young,
Rush — its North American
tour grossed $35 million —
and Linkin Park, which
staged five sold-out concerts
in China. “The name of
the game,” he says, “is to
represent stars globally.”

JAY BROWN, 42

CO-FOUNDER/CEO,
ROC NATION

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 30

In a year marked by negative
press about its nascent
streaming service Tidal
and, most recently, the
turbulent 2016 release of
Rihanna’s Anti, Roc Nation
laid groundwork for a better
future. Brown and his team
forged a partnership with
management firm Three Six
Zero Group (Calvin Harris,
Deadmau5) and deals with
Philymack (Demi Lovato,
Nick Jonas) and Brooklyn’s
Barclays Center, where
Jay Z, Beyonce and Nicki
Minaj performed at the
Tidal X concert in October.
Rihanna’s tour also should
make for a brighter 2016.

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ANTONIO “L.A.” REID, 59

CHAIRMAN/CEO,

EPIC RECORDS

LAST YEAR'S RANK: 61

SYLVIA RHONE, 63

PRESIDENT, EPIC RECORDS

LAST YEAR'S RANK: 61

Reid says listening to his
artists helped Epic register
its strongest year and
land its first Billboard 200
No. 1 — Meghan Trainor’s
Title — since he took over the
label in 2011. “Whenever I
thought we had the better
idea, I was wrong,” he
recalls. In 2015, he and
Rhone partnered with
Janelle Monae’s Wondaland
label, added Mariah Carey
to the label and scored
hits with Future and
Sara Bareilles.
collects reid: “Phone

Since partnering with
Live Nation in 2013,
Rotella has steadily
built Insomniac into
a global EDM empire.

His flagship festival,
Electric Daisy Carnival
Las Vegas, drew more
than 134,000 attendees
in 2015. This year,
Rotella will oversee the
brand’s expansion to
Brazil and Japan.

What is the current state
of the dance industry?

It has been accepted into
pop culture at this point,
which took more than two
decades. It’snotjustafad.

I know people mention that
bubblesaregoingto pop,
but it’s not going anywhere.

Where is the festival
scene heading?

Things willget even more
creative. I believe that
will include experience

and customer service.
You’ll see some expand
internationally, even more
so than they have.

Which markets excite
you?

Asia, South America. There
are a couple I don’t want to
mention because I’ve got to
get there first.

What’s the best approach
to prevent drug-related
deaths from negatively
affecting dance music?

Educate the public.

Speak up when ridiculous
accusations come up.

And run safe events and
continue to find innovative
ways to ensure safety and
security.

What is one prediction
for the industry in 2016?

We’re going to see some
festival [closings].
Saturation is a big issue.

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 59

numbers. My most prized is
Barack Obama’s.”

NEIL PORTNOW, 67

PRESIDENT/CEO,

THE RECORDING ACADEMY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 56

Grammy Awards ratings
have topped 25 million
viewers for the last five
years, and an uptick in 2016
wouldn’t be surprising
given the top nominees —
Kendrick Lamar (11), Taylor
Swift and The Weeknd
(7 each) — CBS’ promotion
of the awards during
Super Bowl 50 and, says
Portnow, “The fact [that the]
appetite for music is at an
all-time high.”

HIDDEN MUSICAL TALENT
“My high school band, The
Savages, just did a 50-year
reunion and recording.”

DAVID MASSEY, 58

PRESIDENT/CEO,

ISLAND RECORDS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 53

The conscious uncoupling
of Island and Def Jam in

2014 energized Massey and
his team. “I wanted to go
back to the idea of Chris
Blackwell-era Island: an
artist-driven label that was
a major, but in an intimate
manner,” he says. Island’s
2014 hot streak (Nick Jonas,
Tove Lo) continued in 2015
with Fall Out Boy’s and
Shawn Mendes’ albums
debuting at No. 1 and
Demi Lovato’s Confident at
No. 2. Island also formed
SafeHouse Records with
Lovato, Jonas and their
manager Phil McIntyre.

RICH RILEY, 42

CEO, SHAZAM
ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 57

The song-identification app
had a record year, zooming
from 86 million active
users per month in 2014 to
120 million, and officially
became a “unicorn,”
one of the rare privately
held companies valued at
$1 billion or more. Riley says

it’s just the beginning. The
executive, who lives in New
Canaan, Conn., with his wife
and four children, points to
recent brand partnerships
with Target and Nike,
among others. Customers
can now “Shazam” a TV
ad or learn more about a
store’s soundtrack. A recent
campaign with Showtime
even encouraged using the
app on any $1, $5 or $20 bill
to unlock exclusive content
from the series Billions.

of Facebook, where more
than 780 million connect
to at least one artist, and
Instagram, where six of
the top 10 accounts are
musicians.

2016 candidate “Bernie
Sanders or Hillary Clinton
and I’ll be happy.”

RICH LEHRFELD, 47

SENIOR VP GLOBAL BRAND
MARKETING &
COMMUNICATIONS,
AMERICAN EXPRESS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 65

JONATHAN HULL, 36

HEAD OF MUSIC
PARTNERSHIPS, FACEBOOK

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

No person reaches more
music fans than Hull.

The father of three and
hobbyist musician — he
plays and records with the
band Jones Street Station
— splits his time educating
the product team about
the music industry while
helping artists, managers
and labels get the most out

Looking to give fans
new ways to experience
artists — and vice versa —
Lehrfeld, whose 2015 music
spend is estimated in the
$25 million to $50 million
range, launched American
Express’ Unstaged live-
stream music series. The
Taylor Swift video alone
amassed 1.4 billion YouTube
views as well as an Emmy,
but Lehrfeld says he also is
aiming for an experiential
payoff: “creating memories.”

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GENERAL COUNSEL/
EXECUTIVE VP BUSINESS
& LEGAL AFFAIRS,
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

MICHAEL NASH, 58

EXECUTIVE VP DIGITAL
STRATEGY,

UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

Late in 2015, UMG recruited
Harleston and Nash for a
new executive management
board to drive growth
and creativity. Attorney
Harleston’s role was
expanded to include global
operations, while digital
expert Nash was hired from
Warner just before UMG
crossed a major threshold:
Streaming royalties
accounted for 51 percent
of the company’s digital
recorded-music revenue in
the third quarter of 2015.
ARTIST WITH WHOM HE’D
TRADE PLACES HARLESTON:
“There was a time in my
life when I wanted to be the
fourth member of Bell Biv
DeVoe. If you’re ever with
me and ‘Poison’ conies on,
look out, because I’m going
to do the whole routine.”

LOUIS MESSINA, 68

CEO, MESSINA
TOURING GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 74

The veteran concert
promoter had his best year
ever in 2015, selling 6 million
tickets for concerts by Taylor
Swift, Kenny Chesney, Ed
Sheeran and Eric Church.

He has a big year ahead,
too, with George Strait,
who returns to the stage
with eight sold-out shows
at the 20,000-capacity
Las Vegas Arena in April
and September.

2016 INDUSTRY PREDICTION
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“Louis literally found me sitting on the sidewalk and invited
me on his bus. He told me he would take me to stadiums in
two years — and he did. He’s one of those characters you
want to hang around with all the time, but usually those types
are without the drive or sense that Louis has in abundance.”

festivals. The money’s big,
but there are only so many
headliners.”

RRANDON CREED, 38

MANAGER, THE CREED
COMPANY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 73

Creed’s top clients, Mark
Ronson and Bruno Mars,
teamed to create “Uptown
Funk!,” 2015 ’s best-
selling digital song, with
5.5 million downloads. Both
also performed at the Super
Bowl 50 halftime show
(Mars’ second appearance
in three years), but Creed
says he’s choosy about what
opportunities he brings to
his hitmakers. “I believe in
the power of ‘no,’ ” he says.
“It will almost always lead
you to the right place.”

2016 CANDIDATE “Hillary
Clinton brings more
experience than any other
candidate, particularly in
foreign policy.”

JOHN ESPOSITO, 60

PRESIDENT/CEO, WARNER
MUSIC NASHVILLE

LAST YEAR’S RANK: EG

WMN’s straight-talking
CEO led a team that landed
nine tracks from six of the
Nashville division’s artists
atop Billboard’s Country
Airplay chart, while Brett
Eldredge’s second studio
album, Illinois, hit No. 1 on
Top Country Albums.
collects “All things Sinatra,
I just got the Morrison Hotel
Gallery book on him. It
comes with white gloves.”

RYAN BEACH, 40

VP ELECTRONICS &
ENTERTAINMENT, TARGET

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

A top player in music’s
physical realm, the
Minneapolis-based
superstore sold 1 million
CDs of a deluxe version
of Adele’s 25 (with three
extra songs) in 10 days in

November and launched
nearly too other exclusive-
track albums in 2015.

Beach, who joined Target
in 1998 and moved through
housewares to his current
role in 2014, says that even
streamers want something
to hold: “ We work closely
with artists to deliver that
special content.”

MARTIN MILLS, 66

FOUNDER/CHAIRMAN,
BEGGARS GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: G3

Taylor Swift is credited with
getting Apple Music to drop
its demand that artists forgo
payment during its three-
month free trial-subscription
period, but Mills fired the
first warning shot when he
posted a letter of concern
on his company’s website
in mid-June. Consistently
one of the larger indie
operations, London-based
Beggars Group finished
2015 with 0.31 percent of
the market, and that doesn’t
include its stake in Adele’s
label, XL Recordings.

RAJA RAJAMANNAR, 54

CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER,
MASTERCARD

LAST YEAR’S RANK: G9

The data-driven
Rajamannar launched
MasterCard’s biggest
investment in music in 2015,
spending an estimated
$15 million to $25 million.

As part of that initiative, he
aligned the financial services
giant with more genres,
such as EDM. He also
orchestrated MasterCard’s
first sponsorship of a concert
series, Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ s
postshow live streams and
cashless technology at
Gwen Stefani’s exclusive
Oct. 17 gig for cardholders
in New York.

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NEIL WARNOCK
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"Jamaica. It has a rich culture, great music
heritage, and the weather is always warm. I’ve
also owned a house there for 20 years.”

Executives dish on the people,
places and things that inspire
them on and off the clock

SCREEN TIME

Michele Anthony,
Universal Music Group

"I watched all 10
episodes of Making
a Murderer in 36
hours. Two of my
dearest friends are
Lorri Davis and her
husband, Damien
Echols, who spent 18
years on death row in
Arkansas, wrongfully
convicted of a horrific
crime. Through the
tireless efforts of Lorri
and friends like Eddie
Vedder and Johnny
Depp, The West
Memphis Three were
set free in 2011. 1 was
very compelled to
watch the series.”

HEADPHONES

Daniel Glass, Glassnote Entertainment Group

"The AKG N90Q [offers] superior sound with
emerging technology,” says Glass of
the auto-calibrating and noise-canceling
headphones that retail for $1,499. 95. "It’s as
if they know my ears. Aural ecstasy!”

SUIT DESIGNER

Rich Riley, Shazam
Entertainment

Even with an
American linebacker
build, I can wear
Ermenegildo Zegna
suits off the rack,
and they manage
to lookgreat.”

CHARITY

Rob Light, Creative
Artists Agency
"Global Poverty
Project’s mission to
end world poverty
andthewayitis
conveying the message
that all of us are
‘global citizens’ is truly
inspiring.” Above:

Eddie Vedder and
Beyonce performed
at the 2015 Global
Citizen Festival.

4 MEAL

Adam Harter, Pepsi
Beverages North
America

"Dining at Guidoriccio

in Siena, Italy, feels like
going back in time,” says
Harter of the restaurant
located near the Piazza
del Campo. "You’re
greeted by a little old man
who picksoutthe most
amazing wine, and I’m
obsessed with the pici
pomodoro e aglio ... it’s
as good as it gets!”

ART

Andre J. Fernandez, CBS Radio

"I am currently liking anything by Romero Britto, the
Brazilian pop artist. I love the colors, the playful themes,
the optimism that his work inspires. I also like the wood
carvings produced in the Reconcavo region of Bahia.”

CAR

Clint Higham, Morris
Higham Management
"Cars are a personal
passion. I’m in the
constant pursuit for
the perfect one. I’ve
owned north of 100
of them, so it’s almost
impossible to say — but
the Rolls Royce Ghost
has to be at the top of
the list for me.”

CAREER ARTIST
MANAGEMENT

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RANDY GOODMAN, 59

CHAIRMAN/CEO, SONY MUSIC
NASHVILLE

LAST YEAR'S RANK: -

The past six months have
been action-packed for
Goodman, who took the
top Nashville job after a
protracted executive search
by Sony. “We brought in
new leadership and assessed
the artist roster, staff and
financial situation while
meeting with artists and
managers,” he says. In spite
of the upheaval, the division
still aced the releases
of Carrie Underwood’s
Storyteller, her sixth
consecutive No. 1 on Top
Country Albums, and Chris
Young’s No. 5 Billboard 200
debut, I’m Cornin’ Over.

STEVE LEVINE, 60

PARTNER/CO-HEAD OF
WORLDWIDE CONCERTS
ICM PARTNERS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

ROB PRINZ, 57

PARTNER/CO-HEAD OF
WORLDWIDE CONCERTS
ICM PARTNERS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

MARK SIEGEL, 62

PARTNER/HEAD OF MUSIC,
ICM PARTNERS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

Bolstered by J. Cole and
Chris Brown tours, ICM’s
music division had a
30 percent increase in
revenue in 2015 (and thanks
to client Kendrick Lamar,
a boost in prestige). Prinz’s
April arrival from UTA with
Bob Seger and Celine Dion
also factored in the upswing.

WILLARD AHDRITZ, 51

FOUNDER/CEO, KOBALT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 72

The largest independent
music publisher expanded
when Ahdritz oversaw
Kobalt’s acquisition of

fcs,

ON RANDY GOODMAN

“I'm really happy to have Randy at the helm. His enthusiasm
and work ethic from day one really energized his team.”

the American Mechanical
Rights Agency, creating
what he calls the “first
global digital-collections
society.” AMRA’s global
deal with YouTube will
pursue payment of video
royalties in more than 100
territories. Kobalt also
signed a deal to administer
the film and TV scores and
songs published by studio
IM Global Music.

ROBERT GREENBLATT, 55

CHAIRMAN, NBC
ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

her special Live in New York
City (13.8 million), Saturday
Night Live (8.5 million) and
The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon (4 million).
Helping the network’s
ratings surge was Dolly
Parton’s Coat of Many Colors,
which Greenblatt helped
to bring to NBC. It was the
most-watched movie on
broadcast TV in more than
four years (13 million).

2016 INDUSTRY PREDICTION
greenblatt: “Several cable
channels will go out of
business.”

LORNE MICHAELS, 71

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, THE
TONIGHT SHOW STARRING
JIMMY FALLON, LATE NIGHT
WITH SETH MEYERS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 85

Michaels was instrumental
in the deal that led to
Adele reaching more than
25 million viewers through

CLIFF BURNSTEIN*

CO-FOUNDER, Q PRIME

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 58

PETER MENSCH, 62

CO-FOUNDER, Q PRIME

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 58

Quiet giants of the industry,
Burnstein and Mensch’s
Q_ Prime roster includes
budding superstar Eric
Church, who sold 812,000

albums and 2.7 million
digital songs, and grossed
$29.8 million on the road
in 2015; perennial revenue
generator Metallica
(822,000 albums sold in
2015); Muse; The Black Keys;
Cage the Elephant; and roots
singer Rhiannon Giddens.

MONICA ESCOBEDO, 38

ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCER;
ABC NEWS, GOOD MORNING
AMERICA

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 77

BRITTANY SCHREIBER, 28

MUSIC BOOKING PRODUCER,
NBC NEWS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

How important are network
morning shows to music
marketing? Even Adele, One
Direction and Justin Bieber
made stops on NBC’s Today,
which Schreiber books,
or ABC’s Good Morning
America, in 2015. Meanwhile,
intense competition
between the two shows—
GMA led the year with
4.9 million average viewers,
while Today won the key
25-54 demographic — keeps
Escobedo and Schreiber
vying for bigger and more
creative gets. Escobedo
reeled in the live premiere of
iD’s “Drag Me Down,” while
Schreiber scored Adele.

PHIL KENT, 61

CHAIRMAN, VEVO

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

Kent’s hiring in September
marks a new era for the
video platform that has
grown to more than
11 billion monthly views and
900 brand advertisers. As
CEO of Turner Broadcasting
System, the media-shy Kent
led a content empire that
included CNN, Adult Swim
and TBS — crucial expertise
should Vevo diversify with
cable content and a paid tier.

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Studios in Los Angeles.

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CHARLIE WALK, 48

PRESIDENT, REPUBLIC GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 91 A

With nearly one out of every
three top 10 songs on the 2015
Mainstream Top 40 airplay
chart belonging to a Republic-
affiliated artist — The Weeknd,
Shawn Mendes and Nick Jonas
among them — Walk’s record as
a promotion man is undeniable.
Now, after three years as
executive vp at the label, the
married father of four has been
elevated to president.

You helped break Nick Jonas as a
solo star but built a band, DNCE,
around Joe Jonas. Why that
strategy?

Joe was a great frontman for the
Jonas Brothers, so he and I made a
decision: Be a great frontman again.

What’s the biggest challenge facing
record companies today?

The designation “record company.”
We are in the artist-as-brand
development business. We’re the
bank that puts up money all the way
through to develop and provide
expert A&R, promotion, marketing
and strategy. We are the machine
behind those artists and no longer
just a company that puts out records.

You have added radio promotion
for Island to your responsibilities.
Isn’t that just one man doingtwo
jobs?

It absolutely has been more work,
but Republic is set up to work with
partners. So, Big Machine Label
Group’s Scott Borchetta brought
us Thomas Rhett, whom we’re
crossing over. Drake isgoingto have
an amazing album out this year on
Cash Money. With Island, it has been
the year of Shawn Mendes, and new
musicfrom NickJonasand Demi
Lovatoisontrack.

As executive vp, you touched every
aspect of Republic’s business.

What will change in your new role?

I don’t want to work great records, I
want to work great artists. The great
artists make the great records.

AFO VERDE, 49

CHAIRMAN/CEO,

LATIN REGION, SPAIN &
PORTUGAL, SONY MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: SI

Big signings and big hits
defined Sony Latin’s 2015.
“El Perdon,” the pairing of
new label additions Enrique
Iglesias and Nicky Jam,
yielded the top genre hit of

the year and pushed Sony’s
Latin-track market share
up more than four points to
nearly 49.1 percent, its third
consecutive year of growth.
Verde also led Sony’s deal
with EGREM for Cuba’s
largest musical catalog.
HIDDEN MUSICAL TALENT
“I’m a founding member
of Argentine reggae band
La Zimbabwe.”

JOHN JOSEPHSON, 54

CHAIRMAN/CEO, SESAC

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

ELIZADETH MATTHEWS, 47

CEO, ASCAP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

MICHAEL O’NEILL, 54

PRESIDENT/CEO, BMI

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

With the U.S. Department
of Justice expected to rule
in 2016 on amending the
nearly 75-year-old consent
decree that, says O’Neill,
“could change the landscape
of music publishing
and songwriting” — not
necessarily to the advantage
of artists and writers — these
executives have the white-
knuckle job of positioning
their performance-rights
organizations for growth in
turbulent times.

BRADFORD COBB, 41

PARTNER, DIRECT
MANAGEMENT GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 79

Along with partners Steve
Jensen and Martin Kirkup,
Cobb has guided the careers
of Katy Perry — whose 15 1-
date Prismatic World Tour,
which ended in October
2015, grossed more than
$160 million — and Adam
Lambert, the highest-
earning former American
Idol contestant of 2015, who
raked in $10 million on a
world tour with Queen.
collects “William
Eggleston photographs.”

ALEXANDER LJUNG, 34

FOUNDER/CEO, SOUNDCLOUD

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

SoundCloud’s early-2016
deal with Universal Music
Group was a key step in
enabling the streaming
platform, which has more
than 175 million users
worldwide, to add a pay
tier. “We have the majority

of the music industry
aligned now,” says Ljung.
“We were able to work
with Alexander,” says
UMG’s Lucian Grainge,
“because on an emotional
and intellectual level he’s
respectful of talent.”

SCOTT PASCUCCI, 57

CEO, CONCORD BICYCLE
MUSIC

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

STEVE SMITH, 61

CHAIRMAN, CONCORD
BICYCLE MUSIC

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

Concord continued its
shopping spree in 2015,
purchasing the Vanguard,
Sugar Hill and Fearless
catalogs; the remainder of
Wind-up Records; and a
significant share of Razor &
Tie’s labels and publishing.

It licensed worldwide rights
for R.E.M.’s Warner Bros,
catalog and, this year, signed
a global publishing deal for
George Harrison’s songs.
From 2013 to 2015, annual
revenue increased from
$82 million to $175 million.

LYOR COHEN, 56

FOUNDER/CEO, 300
ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

KEVIN LILES, 47

CO-FOUNDER, 300
ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

TODD MOSCOWITZ, 46

CO-FOUNDER, 300
ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

A year and a half after its
launch, 300 logged its
first major hit with Fetty
Wap’s “Trap Queen,”
which reached No. 2 on the
Hot too, sold 2.8 million
downloads in 2015 and
earned Wap two Grammy
nods. Set for 2016: T. Wayne
and Young Thug.

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JASON OWEN, 39

PRESIDENT/CEO, SANDBOX
ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

Owen has had a winning
streak managing women
in country: Shania Twain
grossed $65 million with the
year’s ninth-biggest tour,
Kacey Musgraves sold out
Royal Albert Hall in London,
and Little Big Town’s “Girl
Crush” is a triple Grammy
nominee. Owen made news
for not taking the Sony
Nashville presidency but
says the decision helped
his move into TV. He’s an
executive producer with
new client Faith Hill on an
upcoming daytime show.
ARTIST WITH WHOM HE’D
trade places “Beyonce.

I’ve always wanted a wind
machine.”

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STEVE BOOM, 47

VP DIGITAL MUSIC, AMAZON

LAST YEAR'S RANK: 86

Boom led Amazon, already
a market leader in CD and
download sales, into the
streaming business with
Amazon Prime Music and
reportedly is now exploring
launching a standalone
service. He won’t cite
specifics but says Prime
Music usage has grown
50 percent year to year
since its June 2014 launch
(aided by Amazon’s new
Siri-esque Echo speaker) and
has strengthened Amazon
Prime, which has “tens of
millions of users.”

STEPHEN HILL, 54

PRESIDENT OF
PROGRAMMING,
BET NETWORKS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 84

DEBRA LEE, 61

CHAIRMAN/CEO,
BET NETWORKS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 84

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“Jesus is a visionary and innovator, from the inception of
rock en Espanol to the birth of reggaeton, always taking
chances and marking trends. I’ve been fortunate to call him
my friend, partner and mentor through the years.”

After a year marked by staff
cuts and restructuring, BET
ended 2015 by expanding
overseas. The cable network
launched a 24-hour channel
in France and brought its
BET Experience festival —
headlined by Mary J. Blige
and Maxwell — to South
Africa. Meanwhile, the U.S.
edition had a 36 percent
boost in attendance
(150,000-plus) and has been
renewed through 2018.

GOLF OR POKER? HILL: “Golf.
I’m murder at the windmill.”

JESUS LOPEZ, 60

CHAIRMAN/CEO, UNIVERSAL
MUSIC LATIN AMERICA &
IBERIAN PENINSULA

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 71

Universal Music Latin
Entertainment remained
the leader in 2015 U.S.

Latin album sales with
43.1 percent of the market,
led by Juan Gabriel’s Los
Duo, the top-selling Latin LP

of the year. A native of Spain,
Lopez oversees 400 artists
in 22 countries, including
J Balvin, Latin’s biggest
breakthrough of 2015. He
says his focus in 2016 will be
forging partnerships that will
foster the crossover of Latin
music to the United States.

NATALIA NASTASKIN, 45

HEAD OF U.S. MUSIC
OPERATIONS, UNITED TALENT
AGENCY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 52

NEIL WARNOCK, 70

HEAD OF WORLDWIDE MUSIC,
UNITED TALENT AGENCY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

JEREMY ZIMMER, 57

CO-FOUNDING PARTNER/CEO,
UNITED TALENT AGENCY

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

UTA’s acquisition of The
Agency Group brought
2,000-plus music clients
and nearly 100 agents into
Zimmer’s realm, including
Guns N’ Roses, which is

slated to reunite at Coachella
in April. UTA’s stock also
rose when Kanye West and
Mariah Carey defected from
Creative Artists Agency.
ARTIST WITH WHOM SHE’D
TRADE PLACES NASTASKIN:
“Eminem. I love artists who
write and can stay true for
so long.”

DANIEL GLASS, 58

FOUNDER/PRESIDENT,
GLASSNOTE ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP/INSIEME MUSIC
PUBLISHING

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 87

Glass preaches face-to-
face communication
and “old-fashioned
relationships” to his troops.
In 2015, his methods
yielded crucial synchs
with Apple for developing
acts Holychild and Flo
Morrissey. Glassnote’s
Childish Gambino was a
digital powerhouse, with
396 million programmed
and on-demand streams in
2015 without a new release,
and Mumford & Sons’ No. 1
Wilder Mind sold 532,000.

KEN EHRLICH, 73

FOUNDER, AEG EHRLICH
VENTURES

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 56

JACK SUSSMAN, 59

EXECUTIVE VP SPECIALS,
MUSIC & LIVE EVENTS,

CBS ENTERTAINMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 56

Ehrlich and Sussman
worked together on 2015
specials on Stevie Wonder
and Frank Sinatra and, as
they have for 18 years, the
Grammys. The big news
this year: They won’t have
to field complaints about
the broadcast’s hated West
Coast tape delay, as what
Sussman calls “the greatest
concert all year” goes live
coast to coast.

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HENRY CARDENAS, 59

FOUNDER/CEO,
CARDENAS MARKETING
NETWORK

CMN produced more
than 180 concerts
and generated
$180million-plusin
ticket revenue in 2015
with performers like
Marc Anthony, making
it Latin’s top indie live-
entertainment and
marketing powerhouse.

IAN HOGARTH, 34

CO-FOUNDER/
CHAIRMAN, SONGKICK

MATT JONES, 29

CEO, SONGKICK

Headsturnedwhen
Hogarth merged with
Jones’ direct-to-fan
ticketerCrowdsurge,
scored presales for
Adele’stour — then hit
Ticketmaster with an
antitrust suit.

RON PERRY, 37

PRESIDENT, SONGS

MATT PINCUS, 43

FOUNDER/CEO, SONGS

SONGS has placed
amongthetop 10
music publishers
for the past eight
consecutive quarters,
making it one of just
fourindependent
publishers that have
crossed thatthreshold.

SARAH STENNETT*

CEO, FIRST ACCESS
ENTERTAINMENT

Among hertop-
tier clientele (Ellie
Goulding, Iggy Azalea),
ID refugee Zayn Malik
is poised to become her
flagship act in 2016,
bolstered by the added
oomph ofherjoint
venture with Warner
MusicGroup owner
Len Blavatnik.

DAVE FREE, 29

PRESIDENT,

TOP DAWG
ENTERTAINMENT

ANTHONY TIFFITH, 45

FOUNDER/CEO,

TOP DAWG
ENTERTAINMENT

The indie label’s next-
generation roster
includes Kendrick
Lamar, Schoolboy Q,
Ab-Souland SZA.

SARAH MOLL, 39

DIRECTOR OF MEDIA EVENTS,
NFL

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 89

Moll had a daunting task
in 2016: improving upon
a halftime show — for
Super Bowl 50, no less —
that set two consecutive
ratings records in 2014, with
Bruno Mars and Red Hot
Chili Peppers performing,
and 2015, which featured
Katy Perry, Missy Elliott
and a couple of dancing
sharks. The latter drew
118.5 million viewers,
topping 2014’s TV audience
by 3.2 million. Moll and her
team rose to the challenge
with an A-list lineup that
included Lady Gaga singing
the national anthem,
Beyonce, Coldplay, Mark
Ronson and Mars.

JOEL KLAIMAN, 47

EXECUTIVE VP/GM,
COLUMBIA RECORDS

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 95

Klaiman, who oversees
digital and promotions
among other departments,
spent 2015 tailoring rollouts
for such blockbusters as

One Direction’s Made in
theA.M. and Adele’s 25,
which together have sold
8.6 million-plus copies.

His approach also brought
attention to breakout talents
George Ezra, Leon Bridges
and Rachel Platten, whose
“Fight Song” crowned the
Adult Contemporary chart in
September. Next: strategies
for 2016 albums by Maxwell,
John Legend and Haim.

the two portfolios combined
earn $1.2 billion. Key 2015
signings included Fetty Wap
and The Chainsmokers.
COLLECTS strick: “Single-
origin teas. My prize right
now: plum blossom oolong
front Fenghuang, China.”

PETER SHAPIRO, 43

FOUNDER, DAYGLO VENTURES;
CO-PRODUCER, FARE THEE
WELL TOUR

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 100

RICK KRIM, 56

CO-PRESIDENT, SONY/ATV
U.S. MUSIC PUBLISHING

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

DANNY STRICK, 59

CO-PRESIDENT, SONY/ATV
U.S. MUSIC PUBLISHING

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 92

Questions about a future
sale haven’t slowed Sony/
ATV’s momentum: The
publisher has ranked No. 1
among the top too radio
songs for 13 consecutive
quarters under Strick,
who oversees the East
Coast, Nashville and Latin
divisions, and his West
Coast counterpart, Krim.
Factor in its administration
of EMI Music Publishing and

Saying goodbye is never
easy, but $52 million sure
helps ease the pain. That’s
the total gross Shapiro
helped rake in from five
shows as co-producer of
The Grateful Dead’s 50th-
anniversary Fare Thee Well
Tour. It wasn’t his only win:
His flagship venue Brooklyn
Bowl enjoyed its best year
since its 2009 launch, while
locations in London and Las
Vegas continue growing.

CLINT HIGHAM, 44

PRESIDENT/PARTNER, MORRIS
HIGHAM MANAGEMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 93

He rose from intern to
namesake of his Nashville

management firm,
partly through his long
association with client
Kenny Chesney, who
brought in more than
$114 million with the fifth-
highest-grossing tour of
2015. The year also saw the
breakout of Old Dominion,
whose debut single, “Break
Up With Him,” was a
Country Airplay No. 1.

2016 CANDIDATE “it’s
disheartening that I’m
unable to find one.”

RAUL ALARCON JR., 59

CHAIRMAN/CEO, SPANISH
BROADCASTING SYSTEM

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 88

Under Alarcon’s leadership,
publicly traded SBS — which
boasts a portfolio of 22 radio
stations in top Hispanic
markets, the 30-market
affiliate AIRE radio network,
and the broadcast and cable
MegaTV network — focused
on diversification in 2015.
SBS launched the LaMusica
radio streaming app and
staged the first music show
at Miami’s Marlins Park
stadium in December,
selling 30,000-plus tickets.

"Whether on a small or
grand scale, power is
demonstrated by your not
having to use it."

— RAUL ALARCON JR.

"It’s the first

music streaming service
to focus on our culture
and music. It’s an
incredible accomplishment
and well overdue."

“Viva LaMusica!

A music service that
authentically connects with
Latinos via a thoroughly
engaging and user-friendly
smartphone app.”

“Congrats

to all the good people at
SBS for giving us LaMusica
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and hear music."

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PHIL MCINTYRE, 33

CEO/FOUNDER,

PHILYMACK

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

McIntyre brought clients
the Jonas Brothers to
stadiums and Demi Lovato
to arenas. Then he saw the
former break up and the
latter check in to rehab. His
faith that the talent he had
nurtured would mature paid
olf in 2015: Nick Jonas and
Lovato sold 2.9 million and
2.2 million digital tracks,
respectively, and wowed
with 274.1 million and
475.6 million programmed
and on-demand streams.
Roc Nation invested in
PhilyMack and, in a joint
venture with Island Records,
McIntyre, Jonas and Lovato
started the label SafeHouse.

JORDAN FELDSTEIN, 38

FOUNDER/CEO, CAREER
ARTIST MANAGEMENT

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

“All relationships are
reciprocal,” says Feldstein,
who spent 2015 expanding
his roster through
partnerships with Tap
Management, where
Lana Del Rey is a client,
and Chace Johnson, who
represents ASAP Rocky.

He also added R&B singer
Miguel, whose Wildheart
debuted at No. 2 on the
Billboard 200. The 21
consecutive weeks that
client Maroon 5 ’s “Sugar”
spent in the Hot 100 top 10
also sweetened his standing.

STEVE DERMAN, 52

VICE CHAIRMAN, INTERSCOPE

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 9G

Interscope’s 2015 highlights
included breaking hip-hop
duo Rae Sremmurd and, in
a Jeep commercial synch,
alt-rockers X Ambassadors;
and releasing Kendrick

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SARAH TRAHERN, 51

CEO, COUNTRY MUSIC
ASSOCIATION

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

The Country Music
Association, which
Trahern has led since
2013, made an instant star
of Chris Stapleton when
his debut LP, Traveller,
became the first ever to
re-enter the Billboard 200
at No. 1, after more than
13.6 million TV viewers
watched him perform with
Justin Timberlake and
win three CM A Awards
on the November 2015
broadcast.

How do you explain the
Stapleton effect?

The show is known for
unexpected collaborations
— on past shows we paired
Ariana Grande with Little Big
Town, and Meghan Trainor
with Miranda Lambert — and

wetryto raise the bar every
year. We topped the scale
with Justin and Chris. I’d
seen Chrisforyearswith [his
former band] The SteelDrivers
at bluegrass festivals, so
I always knew he was an
amazing vocalist.

Hasanythingsimilar
happened at past CMAs?

Yes. Nickel Creek and Alison
Krauss got a little more
notoriety here, but things
happen so much fastertoday
because of social media. The
minute theshow hit, people
were saying, "Did you hear
about Chris Stapleton and
Justin Timberlake?”

Do you find yourself rooting
for certain artists?

At [my previous employer]
C-SPAN, we had a saying on
the wall because we had to
be neutral asjournalists:

"If you care who wins, you
shouldn’t work here.” That’s
howl havetofeel about the
CM As. All of the artists are our
children. When they read the
nominations, I’m glad I don’t
have a vote.

Trahern photographed
by Robby Klein on Jan. 18
at CM A headquarters
in Nashville.

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Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly;
Dr. Dre’s first album in 14
years, Compton; and Selena
Gomez’s Revival. “We
fought very hard to sign her,”
says Berman, who also cites
Gomez’s Victoria’s Secret
fashion show performance
as a marketing coup.

MICHELLE JUDELIRER, 41

COO, CAPITOL MUSIC GROUP

LAST YEAR’S RANK: 99

Jubelirer, who was promoted
from executive vp in May,
says Ashley Newton’s
January arrival as CMG
president frees her up to
focus on emerging business
strategies. “If we stay a
record company, we will
ultimately die,” contends
the former attorney. Her
advancement came during
a good year for Capitol’s
young talent: Tori Kelly

scored a best new artist
Grammy nod and landed at
No. 2 on the Billboard 200
with her major-label debut,
Unbreakable Smile.

DAVID ISRAELITE, 47

PRESIDENT/CEO, NATIONAL
MUSIC PUBLISHERS’
ASSOCIATION

LAST YEAR’S RANK: -

Arguably the industry’s most
powerful lobbyist, Israelite
brought together indie
publishers and Apple so the
latter could launch its new
subscription service. Similarly,
he helped performance rights
organizations and publishers
to sign direct licensing deals
with Pandora.

2016 candidate “Chris
Christie and Marco Rubio,
who offer the best [hope]
for the future of the
Republican Party.”

METHODOLOGY A committee of
Billboard editors and reporters
weighed a variety of factors in
determining the Powenoo rankings,
including but not limited to impact on
consumer behavior, as measured by
metrics such as chart performance,
social media impressions and radio
and TV audiences reached; company
growth; career trajectory; reputation
among peers; and overall impact
in the industry. Where appropriate,
Billboard also considered record-
label market share using Nielsen
Music U.S. total album plus track
equivalent album (TEA) sales, and
U.S. current album plus TEA market
share, which was calculated using
Nielsen Music data. Unless otherwise
noted, Billboard Boxscore and Nielsen
Music are the sources for tour grosses
and sales and streaming data.
CONTRIBUTORS Jem Aswad,

Steve Baltin, William Chipps,

Ed Christman, Leila Cobo,

Michael Corcoran, Adrienne Gaffney,
AndyGensler, Shirley Halperin,

Jenn Haltman, Steven J. Horowitz,
Matt Medved, Gail Mitchell,

Melinda Newman, Glenn Peoples,

Dan Rys, Richard Smirke,

Eric Spitznagel, Phyllis Stark,

Ray Waddell, Chris Willman

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DRAKE’S SWEET
‘SIXTEEN’

They don't call him the 6 God for
nothing: Drake blasts in at No. 6
on the Billboard Hot 100 — and
No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
— with his latest single, "Summer
Sixteen," from his Views From the
6 album, due in April.

"Summer Sixteen" starts at No. 2
on the Digital Songs chart with
215,000 downloads sold in the
week ending Feb. 4 (according to
Nielsen Music) — Drake's best sales
week as a lead artist. It's his 78th
charting effort on Digital Songs.

Fittingly, "Summer Sixteen" gives
Drake his 16th top 10 single on the
Hot 100. It joins his featured turn
on Rihanna's "Work" (9-7) to give
Drake a pair of concurrent top 10
songs for first time since the
April 6, 2013-dated Hot 100.

The song is — wait for it — the
sixth top 10 single on the Hot 100
with either the word "sixteen" or
"16" in its title. One such title went
all the way to No. 1: Ringo Starr's
"You're Sixteen" in 1974.
-KEITH CAULFIELD and GARY TRUST

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Coldplay, Bruno Mars and
Beyoncejump up the charts
after their Super Bowl
performance.

TOMORROW’S HITS

‘RIVER* RISES

Folk, rock and EDM collide
harmoniously in "River"
(Teleport), the second release
from Los Angeles singer-
songwriter Bishop. The track,
co-produced and -written by
Justin Bieber collaborator Mark
"The Mogul" Jackson, enters Rock
Digital Songs at No. 15 (8,000
downloads sold, according to
Nielsen Music) and Hot Rock Songs
as the Hot Shot Debut at No. 22.

NEW ‘LIFE* FOR PHASES

Los Angeles-based group Phases
is rising on Dance Club Songs
with "I'm in Love With My Life"
(Warner Bros.), which surges
30-21. After reaching No. 35 on
Alternative in July 2015, the
track has been remixed for club
promotion by DJs who include Dave
Aude and Eau Claire. The tune is
also garnering exposure thanks
to its Feb. 8 sync in NBC's Eva
Longoria-led Telenovela .

CHART BEAT

Radio Goes Gaga After garnering a best original song Academy
Award nomination (see page 57), Lady Gaga's "Til It Happens to You"
debuts on its first Billboard airplay chart, entering Adult Contemporary
at No. 24. The Diane Warren co-write is from the documentary The
Hunting Ground, which examines campus rape, but its weighty subject
matter isn't deterring programmers. "We've gotten a lot of positive
social media response," says WPEZ Macon, Ga., PD Brian Roberts.

The single became Lady Gaga's 14th No. 1, and first in more than two
years, on the Dance Club Songs chart dated Jan. 23. —GARY TRUST

©

41%

THIS WEEK

MIKE POSNER'S
"I TOOK A PILL IN
IBIZA" STREAMS

4.3 MILLION

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THIS WEEK

DAYA'S

"HIDEAWAY"

AUDIENCE

54.1 MILLION

©

33%

THIS WEEK

SHAWN HOOK'S
"SOUND OF YOUR
HEART" STREAMS

1.1 MILLION

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Co-Stars Spike Up Charts

The band's sales jump thanks to its Super Bowl halftime show with
Beyonce and Bruno Mars — and a well-timed Google Play discount

BY KEITH CAULFIELD

COLDPLAY MAY HAVE SHARED THE
spotlight with Beyonce and Bruno Mars, but
the band is still cashing in on its Feb. 7 Super
Bowl halftime show performance: Its latest
album, 2015 ’s A Head Full of Dreams, is aiming
for a big gain on the charts in the tracking
week ending Feb. 11. Industry forecasters
suggest the set could move upward
of 90,000 equivalent album units,
with pure album sales equating to
perhaps 80,000 of that sum.

Helping bolster that figure — by
a lot — is the album’s 99-cent sale
price in the Google Play store and
a $6.99 tag at iTunes. In the week
ending Feb. 4, A Head Full of Dreams (pictured
right) moved 25,000 units (up 92 percent) and
15,000 in pure album sales (up 97 percent) to
rise 37-16 on the Billboard 200 dated Feb. 20.
On the Feb. 27 Billboard 200, A Head Full of
Dreams could shoot back into the top five —
possibly the top three — where it appears
that Future is heading for his third straight
No. 1 album in less than seven months. The

rapper’s new Evol, which arrived Feb. 5
through A-i/Freebandz/Epic, may earn
around 135,000 units in the week ending
Feb. 11. It follows DS2 (No. 1 on the Aug. 8,
2015-dated chart) and What a Time to Be
Alive with Drake (No. 1 on Oct. 10).

Coldplay ’s Super Bowl co-stars will jump up
the charts with some help from sale pricing
as well. Mars’ most recent LP, Unorthodox
Jukebox, was discounted to $1.99 at Google
and could sell 10,000 copies in the week
ending Feb. 11 (up from just 1,000 in the Feb. 4
week). As for Beyonce, the diva dropped new
single “Formation” on Feb. 6, the day before
she played it at the Super Bowl, as
a free download via Tidal; the song
shoots to No. 2 on the Billboard +
Twitter Top Tracks chart.

The social media buzz generated
by the song and its performance
pushes Beyonce 21-8 on the
Social 50 chart, with a 62 percent
increase in chart points (the only gaining
artist, by points, in the top 10). In the week
ending Feb. 7, Beyonce notched a 1,532
percent increase in Instagram reactions (likes
and comments on her photos) and tallied a
113 percent lift in mentions of her handle on
the Twitter platform, according to Next Big
Sound. Meanwhile, Coldplay climbs 50-42 on
the Social 50 and Mars re-enters at No. 50 . 0

SIMONS CATCHES ON

Mixing acoustic guitars and house
production. Matt Simons' "Catch &
Release" (Republic) is building
stateside after reaching the top 10
of multiple European charts. The
song, sparked by a remix from Dutch
duo Deepend, is bubbling under
Adult Top 40 and Triple A, with
leading support from tastemaker
KINK Portland, Ore.

-KEVIN RUTHERFORD,
KEITH CAULFIELD and GARY TRUST

MARKET WATCH

A WEEKLY NATIONAL MUSIC SALES REPORT

Weekly Unit Sales

ALBUMS DIGITAL DIGITAL

ALBUMS* TRACKS

This Week*

3,963,000

1,814,000

15,715,000

Last Week

3,353,000

1,519,000

14,958,000

Change

18.2%

19.4%

5.1%

This Week Last Year

4,197,000

1,978,000

19,709,000

Change

-5.6%

-8.3%

-20.3%

*Digital album sales are also counted within album sales.

Weekly Album Sales (Million Units)

■

2016

10

2015

5 . 4.0M

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M J J

A S O

N D J

YEAR-TO-DATE

Overall Unit Sales

2015

2016

CHANGE

Albums

22,481,000

18,899,000

-15.9%

Digital Tracks

111,667,000

82,876,000

-25.8%

Store Singles

373,000

137,000

-63.3%

Total

134,521,000

101,912,000

-24.2%

Album w/TEA*

33,647,700

27,186,600

-19.2%

one album sale.

Digital Track Sales

2015

TM 82.9 Million

Sales by Album Format

2015 2016 CHANGE

CD 10,477,000 8,936,000 -14.7%

Digital 10,924,000 8,702,000 -20.3%

Vinyl 1,025,000 1,209,000 18.0%

Other 55,000 52,000 -5.5%

Sales by Album Category

2015 2016 CHANGE

current 10,689,000 8,312,000 -22.2%

catalog 11,792,000 10,587,000 -10.2%

Deep catalog 9,763,000 8,984,000 -8.0%

Current Album Sales

2015

2016

8.3 Million

Catalog Album Sales

2015

2016

10.6 Million

Nielsen Music counts as current only sales within the first 18 months of an album’s release
(12 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay in the top half of the Billboard 200,
however, remain as current. Titles older than 18 months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of
catalog for titles out more than 36 months.

For week ending Feb. 4, 2016. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national
sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected by Nielsen Music.

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SELENA GOMEZ

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BRYSON TILLER

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100 debut at No. 69
powered by the building
momentum of its breakout
hit, "7 Years." After reaching
the top 10 in multiple
European countries, the
single pushes 57-43 in its
third week on the Billboard
Hot 100. Digital song
sales account for the act's
greatest Artist 100 points
contributor (60 percent)
as "7 Years" jumps by
61 percent to 42,000
downloads sold in the
tracking week ending
Feb. 4, according to Nielsen
Music, and improves
its Digital Songs rank
(28-14). The track also is
rising at a range of radio
formats, pushing 25-21
on Adult Top 40, 30-27
on Triple A and 38-37 on
Alternative, and debuting
on Mainstream Top 40 at
No. 36.

Lukas Graham's
self-titled debut album
is due March 25. (It's
centered, lyrically, on the
death of Forch hammer's
father.) The band kicks
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first headlining North
American tour March 28
at the Troubadour in West
Hollywood, Calif.

Meanwhile, Rihanna
rockets into the Artist
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previously peaked at No. 11.
She soars by 279 percent
in overall activity as her LP
Anti opens at No. 1 on Top
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2 12

CHRIS BROWN Royalty

RCA

3 7

J. COLE A 2014 Forest Hills Drive

DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

1 61

FLO RIDA My House (EP)

POE BOY/ATLANTIC/AG

14 44

TAYLOR SWIFT A 1989

BIG MACHINE/BMLG

1 67

SHAWN MENDES A Handwritten

ISLAND

1 43

VARIOUS artists 2016 Grammy Nominees

GRAMMY/REPUBLIC

9 2

SAM HUNT A Montevallo

MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN

3 67

ADELE O 21

XL/COLUMBIA

1 259

DRAKE & FUTURE • What A Time To Be Alive

A-1/FREEBANDZ/Y0UNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/EPIC/REPUBLIC

1 20

KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 31

RAZORS TIE

6 3

MEGADETH Dystopia

T-BOY/UME

3 2

GRATEFUL DEAD Dave's Picks, Volume 17: Selland Arena, Fresno, CA 7/19/1974

GRATEFUL DEAD/RHINO

31 1

DAVID BOWIE A Best Of Bowie

JONES/TINTORETTO/PARLOPHONE/RHINO

4 27

THOMAS RHETT Tangled Up

VALORY/BMLG

6 19

original BROADWAY CAST Hamilton: An American Musical

HAMILTON UPTOWN/ATLANTIC/AG

12 19

FUTURE DS2

A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

1 29

EAGLES ^ Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

ASYLUM/ELEKTRA/RHINO

1 180

SOUNDTRACK Grease Live!: Music From The Television Event

PARAMOUNT/REPUBLIC

37 1

MEGHAN TRAINORA Title

EPIC

1 56

DRAKE A If You're Reading This It’s Too Late

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

1 52

RACHEL PLATTEN Wildfire

COLUMBIA

5 5

THE CHAINSMOKERS Bouquet (EP)

DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA

31 14

TORI KELLY Unbreakable Smile

SCHOOLBOY/CAPITOL

2 24

edsheeranA X

ATLANTIC/AG

1 85

HALSEY 0 Badlands

ASTRALWERKS

2 23

TWENTY ONE PILOTS Vessel

FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

21 77

BLAKE SHELTON Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits

WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE/WMN

5 15

TROYE SIVAN Blue Neighbourhood

CAPITOL

7 9

LUKE BRYAN Kill The Lights

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

1 26

FALL OUT BOY 0 American Beauty / American Psycho

DCD2/ISLAND

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ALESSIA CARA Know-It-All

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51

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CARRIE UNDERWOOD • Storyteller

19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

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DRAKE A Take Care

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

1 153

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R&B MONEY/ATLANTIC/AG

Sex Love & Pain II

15

2

48

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ELLIE GOULDING

CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE/IGA

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3

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FLEETWOOD MAC A

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51

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In The Lonely Hour

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1 78

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These Things Happen

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How Can it Be

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MICK SCHULTZ/DEF JAM

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22

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KENDRICK LAMAR A To Pimp A Butterfly

TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

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1

1 210

J. COLE Forest Hills Drive: Live

DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

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2

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DRAKE A Nothing Was The Same

YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

1 121

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BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

Everything Is 4

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N.W.A A Straight Outta Compton

RUTHLESS/PRIORITY/UME

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WEB/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME

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74

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YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

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49

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RUTHLESS/PRIORITY/CAPITOL

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EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

Pawn Shop

17

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1 36

77

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Hozier

2

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50

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HANK WILLIAMS JR.

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It’s About Time

15

3

3

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Dark Sky Paradise

1 50

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KENDRICK LAMAR A good kid, m.A.A.d city

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67

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79

88

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364

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CHRIS YOUNG

RCA NASHVILLE/SMN

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MOTOWN GOSPEL/WORD-CURB/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA

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FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 0 Anything Goes

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG

1 69

87

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NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS Nathaniel Rateliff&The NigtltSweatS

STAX/CONCORD

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COLUMBIA/LEGACY

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NOW 56

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KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

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Chaos And The Calm

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1000 Forms Of Fear

1 78

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Rihanna
Rules;
Grease Is
The Word

Rihanna's Anti vaults
27-1 on the Billboard 200,
marking the diva's second
leader, following 2012's
Unapologetic. The new set
earned 166,000 equivalent
album units in the week
ending Feb. 4, according to
Nielsen Music, with pure
album sales equating to

124.000 of that sum.

Anti bowed at No. 27 on

the Feb. 13-dated list after
being available for only
a fraction of the chart's
tracking week (which
ended Jan. 28). The album
was released through
Tidal's streaming service
on the evening of Jan. 27,
commercially released the
next day (again, through
Tidal) and became widely
available to all digital
retailers on Jan. 29.

Anti's first full week of
sales — her smallest sales
start on the list since 2006's
A Girl Like Me (115,000) -
was likely tempered by the
album's previous availability
as a free download. It was
given away beginning
Jan. 27 in a limited quantity
and generated 1.47 million
downloads globally in
less than 15 hours. Those
gratis downloads did not
count toward the charts
or Nielsen Music's sales
figures.

Elsewhere on the
Billboard 200, Fox TV's
Grease Live! soundtrack
hand jives its way to a
No. 37 start (13,000 units;

9.000 in album sales). The
companion piece to Fox's
Jan. 31 live staging of the
hit musical is joined by
the movie's soundtrack

at No. 61 (9,000 units;
up 539 percent, and of
that number, 5,000 were
pure album sales; up 667
percent), which is back
on the chart for the first
time since 1980. The two
albums also hold down the
No. 1 and 3 positions on
the Soundtracks chart (see
page 108). —Keith Caulfield

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TIM MCGRAW Damn Country Music

MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE/BMLG

5 9

RAESREMMURD SremmLife

EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE/IGA

5 57

EMINEM A Curtain Call: The Hits

SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

1 275

KIRK FRANKLIN Losing My Religion

FO YO SOUL/RCA

10 11

BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS ^ Legend: The Best Of...

TUFF GONG/ISLAND/UME

5 403

ZAC BROWN BAND# JEKYLL + HYDE

JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC

1 41

MICHAEL JACKSON A Bad

MJJ/EPIC/LEGACY

1 146

BRETT ELDREDGE Illinois

ATLANTIC/WMN

3 16

QUEEN A Greatest Hits 1 II & III: The Platinum Collection

HOLLYWOOD

48 23

MAJOR LAZER Peace Is The Mission

MAD DECENT

12 35

MAROON 5 ▲ V

222/INTERSCOPE/IGA

1 75

DEMI LOVATO Confident

SAFEHOUSE/ISLAND/HOLLYWOOD

2 16

A$AP ROCKY AT. LONG. LAST. A$AP

A$AP WORLDWIDE/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

1 36

2PAC^ Greatest Hits

AMARU/DEATH ROW/INTERSCOPE/UME

3 128

MIKE POSNER The Truth (EP)

ISLAND

115 2

BEYONCE A 1 Am. ..Sasha Fierce

MUSIC WORLD/COLUMBIA

1 98

OLD DOMINION Meat And Candy

RCA NASHVILLE/SMN

16 13

CARRIE UNDERWOOD A Greatest Hits: Decade #1

19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

4 61

IMAGINE DRAGONS A Night Visions

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

2 179

LOGIC The Incredible True Story

DEF JAM

3 12

LANADELREYA Born To Die

POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA

2 210

PENTATONIX# Pentatonix

RCA

1 16

onerepublicA Native

MOSLEY/INTERSCOPE/IGA

4 135

THEWEEKNDA Trilogy

XO/REPUBLIC

4 101

DR. DRE A Dr. Dre - 2001

AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME

2 137

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Got Your Six

PROSPECT PARK

2 22

J. COLE# Born Sinner

ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

1 50

DAVID GUETTA Listen

WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG

4 48

ANDYGRAMMER Magazines Or Novels

S-CURVE

19 49

BRITNEY SPEARS A Greatest Hits: My Prerogative

JIVE/LEGACY

4 33

SOUNDTRACK Star Wars: The Force Awakens

LUCASFILM/WALT DISNEY

5 7

EAGLES A Hell Freezes Over

GEFFEN/UME

1 115

MICHAEL JACKSON <5* Thriller

EPIC/LEGACY

1 252

ELTON JOHN A Greatest Hits 1970-2002

ROCKET/UTV/UME

12 99

FOR KING & COUNTRY RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG.

FERVENT/WORD-CURB/WMN

13 20

GUNS N’ ROSES A Greatest Hits

GEFFEN/UME

3 343

RICK ROSS Black Market

MAYBACH/DEF JAM

6 9

KANYEWEStA Graduation

ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM

1 68

BRANTLEY GILBERT# Just As 1 Am

VALORY/BMLG

2 88

LIL DICKY Professional Rapper

CMSN

7 21

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE A The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2)

RCA

1 59

BANDA LOS RECODITOS Me Esta Gustando

EL RECODO/FONOVISA/UMLE

142 1

EMINEM A The Marshall Mathers LP 2

WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

1 114

VANCE JOY • Dream Your Life Away

F-STOP/ATLANTIC/AG

17 54

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE A Here’s To The Good Times

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG

4 162

AMY WINEHOUSE A Back To Black

REPUBLIC

2 147

IMAGINE DRAGONS# Smoke + Mirrors

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA

1 51

LUKE BRYAN A Crash My Party

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

1 130

PANIC! AT THE DISCO Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!

DECAYDANCE/FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

2 60

J. COLE • Cole World: The Sideline Story

ROC NATION/COLUMBIA

1 58

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MAREN MORRIS Maren Morris (EP)

COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN

151 2

KEVIN GATES Luca Brasi 2: A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition

BREAD WINNERS’ ASSOCIATION/GANGSTA GRILLZ/ATLANTIC/AG

38 28

MEEK MILL Dreams Worth More Than Money

MAYBACH/ATLANTIC/AG

1 30

TY DOLLA $IGN Free TC

ATLANTIC/AG

14 11

KANYE WEST ▲ My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM

1 52

NIRVANA 4^ Nevermind

SUB POP/DGC/GEFFEN/UME

1 310

ASAP ROCKY • Long.Live.A$AP

A$AP WORLDWIDE/POLO GROUNDS/RCA

1 58

AC/DC ^ Back In Black

COLUMBIA/LEGACY

4 250

MICHAEL JACKSON A The Essential Michael Jackson

EPIC/LEGACY

53 155

JOHNNY CASH A The Legend Of Johnny Cash

COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/LEGACY/AMERICAN/ISLAND/UME

5 217

WHITNEY HOUSTON 1 Will Always Love YOU: The Best Of Whitney Houston

ARISTA/RCA/LEGACY

14 18

GREEN DAY A American Idiot

REPRISE/WARNER BROS.

1 127

JESUS CULTURE Let It Echo

JESUS CULTURE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG

35 3

METALLICA A Master Of Puppets

BLACKENED/WARNER BROS.

29 120

ZAC BROWN BAND Greatest Hits So Far...

ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC/AG

20 60

DESTINY’S CHILD A #1’S

COLUMBIA/LEGACY

1 33

GUY PENROD Live: Hymns & Worship

GAITHER/CAPITOL CMG

167 1

JAY Z KANYE WEST A Watch The Throne

ROC-A-FELLA/ROC NATION/DEF JAM

1 66

SHINEDOWN Threat To Survival

ATLANTIC/AG

6 20

EMINEM A Recovery

WEB/SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA

1 218

SOUNDTRACK Furious 7

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/ATLANTIC/AG

1 42

MICHAEL w. SMITH Hymns II: Shine On Us

CB MUSIC/CRACKER BARREL

172 1

YANNl Sensuous Chill

YANNI WAKE/PORTRAIT/SONY MASTERWORKS

173 1

BRUNO MARS A Doo-Wops & Hooligans

ELEKTRA/AG

3 261

SIMON & GARFUNKEL Playlist: The Very Best Of Simon & Garfunkel

COLUMBIA/LEGACY

160 2

BACKSTREET BOYS A The Hits - Chapter One

JIVE/LEGACY

4 25

THE CARS The Complete Greatest Hits

ELEKTRA/RHINO

61 5

KELLY CLARKSON # Greatest Hits: Chapter One

19/RCA

11 61

R. KELLY The Buffet

RCA

16 7

SOUNDTRACK A Frozen

WALT DISNEY

1 112

DAVID BOWIE The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

JONES/TINTORETTO/PARLOPHONE/RHINO

21 85

MUMFORD & SONS # Wilder Mind

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

1 40

KID CUDI • Man On The Moon: The End Of Day

DREAM ON/G.O.O.D./REPUBLIC

4 89

METALLICA A ...And Justice For All

BLACKENED/WARNER BROS.

6 116

ARIANA GRANDE A My Everything

REPUBLIC

1 73

JASONALDEAnA Old Boots, New Dirt

BROKEN BOW/BBMG

1 70

SOUNDTRACK • Fifty Shades Of Grey

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC

2 50

edsheeranA +

ELEKTRA/AG

5 180

LECRAE Church Clothes 3

REACH

12 3

ROBIN SCHULZ Sugar

TONSPIEL/ATLANTIC/AG

172 3

MADONNA ^ The Immaculate Collection

SIRE/WARNER BROS.

2 147

FALL OUT BOY Save Rock And Roll

DECAYDANCE/ISLAND

1 141

BEE GEES# Number Ones

REPRISE/WARNER STRATEGIC MARKETING

5 65

VARIOUS ARTISTS 20 #1’S: ‘80s Pop

UME

194 1

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL A Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits

FANTASY/CONCORD

22 255

‘N SYNC Greatest Hits

JIVE/LEGACY

47 10

EARTH, winds FIRE Greatest Hits

COLUMBIA/LEGACY

40 10

BLOC PARTY Hymns

INFECTIOUS/BMG

198 1

FOO FIGHTERS Greatest Hits

ROSWELL/RCA

11 120

FRANK SINATRA Ultimate Sinatra

FRANK SINATRA ENTERPRISES/CAPITOL/UME

32 31

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UL

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Unbreakable

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TOP ALBUM SALES ™

HEATSEEKERS ALBUMS™

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Adele’s
25 Hits
8 Million
Sold

Adele's mega-successful
25 album has now sold
8 million copies in the
United States, according
to Nielsen Music. The set
sold another 89,000 copies
in the week ending Feb. 4,
bringing its total sum to

8.03 million.

25 is just the sixth album
released since 2001 to
have sold 8 million copies.

It follows Adele's own 21,
Usher's Confessions
(released in 2004, with

10.3 million sold), 50 Cent's
Get Rich or Die Tryiri (2003,
8.4 million), Norah Jones'
Come Away With Me (2002,

11.1 million) and Eminem's
The Eminem Show (2002,

10.6 million).

Since Nielsen Music
began tracking sales in
1991, there are only 46
albums that have sold at
least 8 million copies.

25 — which bowed on
Nov. 25, 2015 — remains
the biggest-selling album
released since 21, which
bowed in 2011. The latter
has sold 11.5 million and
is the lOth-largest-selling
album in Nielsen Music
history.

Further, Adele is the
third solo woman to have
tallied two 8 million sellers
since 1991. Celine Dion
and Britney Spears are the
other leading ladies. Dion
did it with three albums:
Falling Into You (released
in 1996; 10.8 million), Let's
Talk About Love (1997;

9.6 million) and All the Way:
A Decade of Song (1999,

8.1 million). Spears scored
with ...Baby One More Time
(1999, 10.6 million) and
Oops!... I Did It Again (2000,

9.2 million).

— Keith Caulfield

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1

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ISO/COLUMBIA

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4

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GRAMMY/REPUBLIC

2

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PANIC! AT THE DISCO Death Of A Bachelor

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

3

10

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38

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19

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21

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G-EAZY When It’s Dark Out

G-EAZY/RVG/BPG/RCA

9

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XO/REPUBLIC

23

24

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1989

67

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Royalty

7

13

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ASYLUM/ELEKTRA/RHINO

41

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Tedeschi
Trucks
Drives In

Blues-rock act Tedeschi
Trucks Band motors onto
Top Album Sales at No. 9
with Let Me Get By, selling
25,000 copies in the week
ending Feb. 4, according
to Nielsen Music. It's the
first effort from the group
on Fantasy/Concord
after three releases on
Masterworks.

On the Billboard 200,

Let Me Get By enters at
No. 15 with a little more
than 25,000 equivalent
album units (nearly all from
traditional album sales).

On Blues Albums, the
new album starts atop
the list, marking the third
No. 1 for the act (led by the
husband-and-wife team of
Derek Trucks and Susan
Tedeschi). Married since
2001, the two combined
forces professionally in
2010. Before then, Tedeschi
had led the Blues Albums
list three times (between
2002 and 2008), while
Trucks crowned the tally
twice (in 2006 and 2009).

In other genre-specific
news, on the New Age
Albums chart, format
superstar Yanni collects his
latest leader with the bow
of Sensuous Chill (4,000
sold). It's his 16th No. 1 on
the chart — double the
number of leaders of the
next-closest soloist with
the most No. Is (Enya, with
eight). Ahead of Yanni on
the all-time list of acts
with the most No. Is on
New Age: Jim Brickman
(with 20) and Mannheim
Steamroller (with 19).

Yanni's new album
also drops in at No. 76
on Top Album Sales
and No. 173 on the
Billboard 200 (with slightly
more than 4,000 units).

— Keith Caulfield

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Data for week of 02.20.2016

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being chosen for the Billboard Power 100.

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Zendaya

Starts

‘New’

Chapter

Zendaya collects her first
chart entry as a lead artist
on Billboard + Twitter Top
Tracks as "Something
New," featuring Chris
Brown, debuts at No. 14.
The cut was released to
iTunes on Feb. 3, two days
ahead of schedule. "New"
may preview Zendaya's
upcoming sophomore
album, which follows her
2013 self-titled debut.

The new single release
prompted 49,000 Twitter
mentions for the singer on
the platform in the week
ending Feb. 4, according to
Next Big Sound (a gain of
122 percent).

Up at No. 1, Zayn scores
a second week atop the
list with new Billboard Hot
100 No. 1 "Pillowtalk," while
Beyonce bows at No. 2
with "Formation," after
its surprise release on
Feb. 6. The latter's arrival
is the superstar's seventh
top 10 entry and highest-
charting title among 15
songs, besting the No. 3
peak of "7/11" the week of
Dec. 4,2013. (Billboard +
Twitter Top Tracks began in
May 2014.)

Beyonce offered the
first live "Formation"
performance at the Super
Bowl on Feb. 7 before
announcing the Formation
World Tour, which begins
in April. The whirlwind of
activity generated 95,000
Twitter mentions for the
week, up 113 percent.

Meanwhile, Future
launches three chart
debuts, all from his Evol
album: "Low Life" (featuring
The Weeknd, No. 22), "Fly
S**t Only" (No. 28) and "In
Abundance" (No. 33). The
set was released as an
Apple Music exclusive
on Feb. 6 following its
premiere on DJ Khaled's
Beats 1 radio show, We the
Best Radio. Evol' s arrival
sparks 119,000 Twitter
mentions for the week, a
burst of 328 percent.

—Trevor Anderson

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2

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2

5

5

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Justin Bieber

16

7

6

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Adele

16

8

7

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Selena Gomez

11

15

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14

3

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One Direction

14

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10

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Lana Del Rey

2

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18

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49

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13

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18

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1

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19

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29

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4

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11

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2

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5

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Denzel Curry

2

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5

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7

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2

Future

Perfect

Future hits a new peak on
the Social 50, re-entering
at No. 13 after previously
reaching as high as No. 22
on the list dated Nov. 16,
2013. The rapper bounds
onto the ranking after
announcing and releasing
a new album in less than
a week.

"My tweets worth millions
now....in real life," Future
tweeted Feb. 3, shortly
before announcing the
preorder for his new
album Evol. (The Social
50's new tracking week
ended Feb. 7.) Future also
promoted the Apple-
exclusive album's cover
and tracklist on Instagram,
where the artwork
collected more than

11.000 comments.

Future then revealed Evol

would arrive Feb. 5, just a
few weeks after releasing
his mixtape Purple Reign on
Jan. 17 and another mixtape
with Drake last September,
What a Time to Be Alive.

The new album premiered
Feb. 5 on DJ Khaled's We
the Best Radio show on
Beats 1 and was available to
stream in full and purchase
on Apple Music following
the episode. The set is
aiming to open at No. 1 on
the Billboard 200.

Future asked fans to
tweet videos of their
favorite song on the album
and use the hashtag
#EVOL, furthering
engagement with the
release and the social hype
around it. In total during
the tracking week, he
collected 295,000 retweets,
a 543 percent increase in
Twitter reactions, according
to Next Big Sound. He also
gathered 786,000 likes and
comments on Instagram, a
62 percent increase, and

34.000 Wikipedia views (an
increase of 187 percent).

—Emily White

o BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data

110 Go t

Data for week of 02.20.2016

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a force of nature.

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Selena Gomez

5

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Tory Lanez

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G-EAZY/RVG/BPG/RCA

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Selena Gomez

15

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GRAND HUSTLE/EPIC

Travi$ Scott

18

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POE BOY/ATLANTIC

Flo Rida

14

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DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA

11

14

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TRAPSOUL/RCA

Bryson Tiller

11

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DOWN IN THE DM

COCAINE MUZIK/EPIC

Yo Gotti

9

12

14

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EP/DEF JAM

Alessia Cara

26

24

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WORK Rihanna Feat. Drake

WESTBURY ROAD/ROC NATION

2

16

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BACK TO SLEEP

RCA

Chris Brown

9

18

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PROMISE Kid Ink Feat. Fetty Wap

THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 CLASSIC/RCA

5

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BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS.

Jason Derulo

9

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Jeremih

10

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ATLANTIC

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CP/BELLY IS DEAD/ROC NATION

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CALIFORNIA Colonel Loud Feat. T.I., Young Dolph S Ricco Barrino

DERTYNORTH/EMPIRE RECORDINGS

11

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SOMETHING ABOUT YOU

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Majid Jordan

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Rachel Platten

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19

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ISLAND/REPUBLIC

Shawn Mendes

23

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12

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XL/COLUMBIA

Adele

16

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PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC

14

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WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

XL/COLUMBIA

Adele

10

,

8

9

EX’S & OH’S

RCA

Elle King

34

5

10

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EP!C

32

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INTERSCOPE

Selena Gomez

14

14

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OUT OF THE WOODS

BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

Taylor Swift

5

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GOOD TO BE ALIVE (HALLELUJAH) AndyGrammer

S-CURVE/HOLLYWOOD

21

13

14

WILDEST DREAMS

BIG MACHINE/REPUBLIC

Taylor Swift

24

13

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LET IT GO

REPUBLIC

James Bay

18

16

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ONE CALL AWAY

ARTIST PARTNERS GROUP/ATLANTIC

Charlie Puth

13

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LOVE YOURSELF

SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/DEF JAM

Justin Bieber

5

13

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EP/DEF JAM

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15

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XO/REPUBLIC

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9

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CAKE BY THE OCEAN

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10

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WARNER BROS.

Lukas Graham

4

22

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DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

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15

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ARTBEATZ

Daya

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24

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One Direction

8

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WARNER BROS.

Adam Lambert

12

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Z.CROWELL.S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY)

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MCA NASHVILLE

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43

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M.CARTER (C.SWINDELL.A.GORLEY)

Cole Swindell

WARNER BROS./WMN

5

8

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Z.CROWELL (C.UNDERWOOD,Z.CROWELL,A.GORLEY)

Carrie Underwood

19/ARISTA NASHVILLE

6

15

DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE

R. COPPERMAN.B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE.R.COPPERMAN)

Brett Eldredge

ATLANTIC/WMN

7

12

BREAK ON ME.

N.CHAPMAN.K.URBAN (J.M.NITE,R.COPPERMAN)

Keith Urban

HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE

8

15

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1 Z.BROWN (Z.BROWN.N.MOON) SOUTHERN GROUND/JOHN VARVATOS/DOT

9

21

I STAY A LITTLE LONGER •

1 J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE.T.J. OSBORNE.S.MCANALLY)

Brothers Osborne

EMI NASHVILLE

4

44

V DIBS

1 F.G.WHITEHEAD.J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,J.KERR,R.GRIFFIN,J.DUKE)

Kelsea Ballerini

BLACK RIVER

11

26

1 CONFESSION Florida Georgia Line

1 J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,R.COPPERMAN,M. JENKINS) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE

12

14

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BUSBEE.M. MORRIS (BUSBEE.M. MORRIS)

Maren Morris

COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

13

4

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D.GEORGE (J.WILSON.M.ROGERS.J.KING)

Randy Houser

STONEY CREEK

13

36

NOBODY TO BLAME

D.COBB.C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON.B.BALES.R.BOWMAN)

Chris Stapleton

MERCURY

14

14

1 LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT

J.DEMARCUS.RASCAL FLATTS (M.TRAINOR.J.FRASURE.S.MOONEY)

Rascal Flatts

BIG MACHINE

16

20

SNAPBACK

S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY.T. ROSEN.B.TURSI)

Old Dominion

RCA NASHVILLE

17

12

COUNTRY NATION

L.WOOTEN.B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY.C.DUBOIS.K.LOVELACE)

Brad Paisley

ARISTA NASHVILLE

18

23

THAT DON’T SOUND LIKE YOU

J.STONE.L.BRICE (L.BRICE.R.AKINS.A.GORLEY)

Lee Brice

CURB

19

32

LITTLE BIT OF YOU

D.GEORGE, C.BRYANT (C.BRYANT, D.GEORGE, A.GORLEY)

Chase Bryant

RED BOW

20

24

SOMEWHERE ON A BEACH

R. COPPERMAN (M.TYLER,J.BOYER,A.PALMER,D.KUNCIO,J.MIRENDA)

Dierks Bentley

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

20

3

HUMBLE AND KIND

B.GALLIMORE.T.MCGRAW (L.MCKENNA)

Tim McGraw

MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE

19

3

1 THINK OF YOU Chris Young Duet With Cassadee Pope

1 C.CROWDER.C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER,J.HOGE) RCA NASHVILLE/REPUBLIC NASHVILLE

22

6

TENNESSEE WHISKEY

D.COBB.C.STAPLETON (D.DILLON.LINDA HARGROVE)

Chris Stapleton

MERCURY

1

15

MR. MISUNDERSTOOD

J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH.C.BEATHARD)

Eric Church

EMI NASHVILLE

15

14

STONE COLD SOBER

D.HUFF (B.GILBERT, BRETT JAMES.D.LAYUS)

Brantley Gilbert

VALORY

26

12

HEAD OVER BOOTS

B.BUTLER.J.PARDI (J.PARDI.L.LAIRD)

Jon Pardi

CAPITOL NASHVILLE

27

17

MIND READER

M.J.CONES (R.AKINS.B.HAYSLIP)

Dustin Lynch

BROKEN BOW

27

13

BETTER IN BOOTS

J.KING.J.CATINO (J.WILSON.D.PITTENGER.N.COOKE)

Tyler Farr

COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

28

12

FIX

J.MOI (S.BUXTON,J.FRASURE,A.STOKLASA)

Chris Lane

BIG LOUD

30

7

REAL MEN LOVE JESUS

S.HENDRICKS (B.WARREN,B.WARREN,L.MILLER,A.SANDERS)

Michael Ray

ATLANTIC/WEA

31

15

IT ALL STARTED WITH A BEER

M.ALTMAN (J.JOHNSTON,N.MASON,J.S.STOVER)

Frankie Ballard

WARNER BROS./WAR

32

8

SHUT UP AND FISH

D.HUFF (M. MARLOW, T.DYE,P.SALLIS,A.SCHERZ)

Maddie & Tae

DOT

33

9

NIGHT’S ON FIRE

C.AINLAY,F.LIDDELL,G.WORF (J.SINGLETON.D.RUTTAN)

David Nail

MCA NASHVILLE

34

20

1 WHISKEY ON MY BREATH Love And Theft

1 J.LEO.LOVE AND THEFT (S.B.LILES,A.CRAIG,M.MCGUINN,T.TOMLINSON,R.DICKERSON,T.REEVE) HATE AND PURCHASE

31

2

CRAZY OVER ME

M.ALDERMAN.J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT.M.ALDERMAN)

Dylan Scott

CURB

36

14

USED TO LOVE YOU SOBER

M.MCVANEY (K.BROWN,M.MCVANEY,J.HOGE)

Kane Brown

RCA NASHVILLE

15

15

YOU LOOK LIKE 1 NEED A DRINK

J.S.STOVER.J.RAYMOND.S.BORCHETTA (R.CLAWSON,M.DRAGSTREM,N

Justin Moore

I.HEMBY) VALORY

34

6

HOLE IN A BOTTLE

B.BEAVERS.J.ROBBINS (C.SMITH,B.BEAVERS,D.COUCH)

Canaan Smith

MERCURY

39

7

RED, WHITE & YOU

D.HUFF, S.TYLER (S.TYLER,N.BARLOWE,L.HUMMON,J.VELLA)

Steven Tyler

DOT

29

2

T-SHIRT

D.HUFF.J.FRASURE (A.GORLEY.L.LAIRD.S.MCANALLY)

Thomas Rhett

VALORY

39

8

RUNNING FOR YOU

B.JAMES.K.MOORE (K.MOORE,T.VERGES,B.DALY)

Kip Moore

MCA NASHVILLE

42

2

1 1 MET A GIRL William Michael Morgan

1 J.RITCHEY, S.HENDRICKS (T. ROSEN.S.HUNT.S.MCANALLY) WARNER BROS./WMN

42

6

1 YUP

J C.CHAMBERLAIN (S.MINOR,P.O’DONNELL,W.KIRBY)

Easton Corbin

MERCURY

44

15

1 THE DRIVER Charles Kelley Featuring Dierks Bentley & Eric Paslay

J P.WORLEY (C.KELLEY,E.PASLAY,A.STOKLASA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE

41

7

NEXT BOYFRIEND

BUSBEE (L.ALAINA,E.WEISBAND,M.MCVANEY)

Lauren Alaina

19/1 NTERSCOPE/M ERCU R Y

39

8

TRAVELLER

D.COBB.C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON)

Chris Stapleton

MERCURY

17

14

HIGH CLASS

J.FRASURE.M.ALTMAN (E.PASUY,C.CROWDER,J.FRASURE)

Eric Paslay

EMI NASHVILLE

48

2

UNLOVE YOU

D.HUFF (J. NETTLES.B.CLARK)

Jennifer Nettles

BIG MACHINE

49

1

COLD BEER CONVERSATION

C.AINLAY.G.STRAIT (A.ANDERSON.B.HAYSLIP.J.YEARY)

George Strait

MCA NASHVILLE

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WKS. ON
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1

1

pi CHRIS STAPLETON • Traveller

MERCURY/UMGN

40

□

2

SAM HUNT A

MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN

Montevallo 1

67

3

3

BLAKE SHELTON Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits

WARNER BROS./WMN

15

2

4

HANK WILLIAMS JR.

BOCEPHUS/NASH ICON/BMLG

It's About Time

3

7

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19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

15

6

0

THOMAS RHETT

VALORY/BMLG

Tangled Up

19

9

0

LUKE BRYAN

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Kill The Lights

26

8

0

ERIC CHURCH Mr. Misunderstood

EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

14

5

9

BROTHERS OSBORNE

EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN

Pawn Shop

3

12

0

CAM

RCA/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

Untamed

8

3

0

CHRIS YOUNG

RCA NASHVILLE/SMN

I’m Cornin' Over

12

E-

12

TIM MCGRAW Damn Country Music

MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE/BMLG

13

0

13

DON HENLEY

PAST MASTERS HOLDINGS/CAPITOL

Cass County

19

15

O

OLD DOMINION

RCA NASHVILLE/SMN

Meat And Candy

13

20

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FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE # Anything Goes

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG

69

21

0

ZAC BROWN BAND • JEKYLL + HYDE

JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC

41

B

0

LITTLE BIG TOWN

CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN

Pain Killer

68

0

BRANTLEY GILBERT #

VALORY/BMLG

Just As 1 Am

90

HOT

SHOT

DEBUT

0

THE SWON BROTHERS

TSB

Timeless (EP)

1

©

CARRIE UNDERWOOD ▲ Greatest Hits: Decade #1

19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN

61

17

21

BRETT ELDREDGE

ATLANTIC/WMN

Illinois

21

RE

0

KANE BROWN

KANE BROWN

Closer (EP)

8

NEW

0

AUBRIE SELLERS New City Blues

CARNIVAL RECORDING COMPANY/THIRTY TIGERS

1

16

24

CHRIS JANSON

WARNER BROS./WMN

Buy Me A Boat 1

14

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MAREN MORRIS Maren Morris (EP)

COLUMBIA NASHVILLE/SMN

5

COUNTRY AIRPLAY™

LAST

WEEK

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WEEK

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WKS. ON
CHART

1 |i

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Ell HOME alone tonight Luke Bryan Feat. Karen Fairchild

1 ^ 14 ] CAPITOL NASHVILLE

15

5

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BACKROADSONG

WHEELHOUSE

Granger Smith

31

3

3

DIE A HAPPY MAN

VALORY

Thomas Rhett

20

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4

BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN Sam Hunt

MCA NASHVILLE

23

□

0

DIBS

BUCK RIVER

Kelsea Ballerini

32

0

HEARTBEAT Carrie Underwood

19/ARISTA NASHVILLE

11

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BREAK ON ME.

HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE

Keith Urban

16

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0

WE WENT

STONEY CREEK

Randy Flouser

36

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0

BEAUTIFUL DRUG Zac Brown Band

SOUTHERN GROUND/JOHN VARVATOS/DOT

22

4

10

STAY A LITTLE LONGER

EMI NASHVILLE

Brothers Osborne

45

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CONFESSION Florida Georgia Line

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE

14

[l2]

0

COUNTRY NATION

ARISTA NASHVILLE

Brad Paisley

23

15

0

YOU SHOULD BE HERE

WARNER BROS./WMN

Cole Swindell

8

14

0

DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE

ATLANTIC/WMN

Brett Eldredge

14

17

0

1 LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Rascal Flatts

BIG MACHINE

21

16

0

LITTLE BIT OF YOU

RED BOW

Chase Bryant

43

□

0

NOBODY TO BLAME

MERCURY

Chris Stapleton

14

20

©

SNAPBACK

RCA NASHVILLE

Old Dominion

12

21

0

MY CHURCH

COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

Maren Morris

6

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CURB

35

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0

MIND READER

BROKEN BOW

Dustin Lynch

19

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ATLANTIC/WEA

Michael Ray

22

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VALORY

Brantley Gilbert

23

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THINK OF YOU Chris Young Duet With Cassadee Pope

RCA NASHVILLE/REPUBLIC NASHVILLE

6

30

©

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CAPITOL NASHVILLE

3

Stapleton

Hits

Grammys
At No. 1

Ahead of the 58th Annual
Grammy Awards (Feb. 15),
Chris Stapleton continues
his thundering momentum.
Stapleton boasts four
nominations: album of
the year and best country
album for Traveller, as
well as best country solo
performance and best
country song for the
title track.

After debuting on the
Top Country Albums chart
dated May 23, 2015, at
No. 2 with 27,000 sold,
according to Nielsen
Music, Traveller remained
in the top 40 for its first
six months before vaulting

25- 1 on the Nov. 21 tally
(153,000, up 6,412 percent)
after the Nov. 4 Country
Music Association Awards,
where he performed with
Justin Timberlake and
won three awards. The set
logs its 12th week at No. 1
on Top Country Albums
(dated Feb. 20) (27,000). On
Country Airplay, Traveller
single "Nobody to Blame"
lifts 19-17.

"Stapleton's talent is
undeniable," says WXTU
Philadelphia program
director Shelly Easton.

"His voice resonates, which
is what music is intended
to do. It's like the music
actually flows through him
and, in turn, draws us in."

Meanwhile, Country
Airplay welcomes a new
top 10 entry, as Zac Brown
Band's "Beautiful Drug"
rises 11-9. The song is the
third country single from
Jekyll + Hyde, following the
No. Is "Homegrown" and
"Loving You Easy." ZBB
scores its 16th Country
Airplay top 10. In the chart's

26- year history, among
groups (of at least three
members), its top 10 count
trails only those of Rascal
Flatts (29), Alabama (24),
Diamond Rio (19) and
Lonestar (18). —Jim Asker

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of V 2 (pronounced V Squared)
on the success of your debut album
We Are V 2 and being named
Digital Radio Tracker's
Breakout Rock Artist of the Year!

Four songs
from

We Are V z
hit Top 15

on Billboard's
Hot Singles
Sales Chart!

We Are V 2

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Four songs trom
WO Are V z
hit #1 on

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National
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Winner ot 7 (Seven)
Los Angeles
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2016

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Elle King

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3

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ALEX DA KID (A.GRANT,S.N.HARRIS,N.FELDSHUH,C.HARRIS,A.LEVIN)

X Ambassadors

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1

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Fall Out Boy

DCD2/ISLAND/REPUBLIC

4

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RE-ENTRY

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HYMN FOR THE WEEKEND Coldplay

STARGATE.R.SIMPSON (G.R.BERRYMAN.LM.8UCKLAND,WCHAMPI0N.C.AJ.MART1N.M.S.ERIKSEN,TLHERMANSEN.MJ0VAR,V.YARD.S.ZAND PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC

6

6

9

7

7

LET IT GO#

J.KING (J.BAY.P.BARRY)

James Bay

REPUBLIC

7

34

8

l

8

WALKING ON A DREAM Empire Of The Sun

L.STEELE.N.LITTLEMORE (L.STEELE.J.SLOAN.N.LITTLEMORE) THE SLEEPY JACKSON/VIRGIN/ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL

6

6

19

□

THE SOUND OF SILENCE

K.CHURKO (P.SIMON)

Disturbed

REPRISE/WARNER BROS.

9

11

16

0

RIDE

R.REED (T.JOSEPH)

twenty one pilots

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

10

29

7

8

11

EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

J.SINCLAIR (B.URIE,J.SINCLAIR,L.PRITCHARD,S.HOLLANDER,D.WILSON)

Panic! At The Disco

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

5

16

10

9

12

VICTORIOUS

J.SINCLAIR (B.URIE,C.J.BARAN,M.A.VIOLA,M.KIBBY, J.SINCLAIR, A.DELEON.R.CUOMO)

Panic! At The Disco

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

7

19

6

10

13

HOTEL CALIFORNIA ▲

B.SZYMCZYK (D.FELDER.D.HENLEY.G.FREY)

Eagles

ASYLU M/ELEKTRA/RH 1 NO

6

3

15

15

0

ELECTRIC LOVE

T.ENGLISH (G.BORNS,T.SCHLEITER,N.LONG,J.MORAN)

BORNS

REZIDUAL/INTERSCOPE

13

32

11

12

15

DEATH OF A BACHELOR

J.SINCLAIR (B.URIE,L.PRITCHARD,J.SINCLAIR)

Panic! At The Disco

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

11

3

26

16

16

UNSTEADY

ALEX DA KID (A.GRANT,S.N.HARRIS,N.FELDSHUH,C.HARRIS,A.LEVIN)

X Ambassadors

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE

14

18

32

18

17

MESS AROUND

D.AUERBACH (CAGE THE ELEPHANT)

Cage The Elephant

DSP/RCA

16

14

33

19

18

FIRE AND THE FLOOD Vance Joy

STARGATE, BENNY BLANCO, R.HADLOCK (VANCE JOYJ.E.HERMANSEN,M.S.ERIKSEN,B.LEVIN) F-STOP/ATLANTIC

16

19

37

24

19

STATE OF MY HEAD Shinedown

P.NAPPI (B.SMITH,C.COLASSACCO,P.NAPPI,E.THOMPSON,J.DE ZUZIO) ATLANTIC

19

12

18

17

20

DON’T THREATEN ME WITH A GOOD TIME Panic! At The Disco

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10

5

12

20

21

under PRESSURE Queen & David Bowie

QUEEN, MACK, D.BOWIE (D.BOWIE.F. M ERCU RYJ. DEACON , B.M AY,R. A.TAYLO R) HOLLYWOOD/JONES/TINTORETTO/PARLOPHONE/RHINO

5

4

HOT SHOT

RIVER

BISHOP

22

1

DEBUT

I.SCOTT.THE MOGUL (S.MCLAUGHLIN.I.SCOTT.M.JACKSON)

TELEPORT

39

29

23

GENGHIS KHAN Miike Snow

MIIKE SNOW.HJONBACK (C.KARLSSON.P.J.WINNBERG.A. WYATT, H.N.JONBACK) DOWNTOWN/ATLANTIC

23

4

41

*

24

MOUNTAIN AT MY GATES Foals

J.FORD (FOALS) TRANSGRESSIVE/WARNER BROS.

24

17

38

26

25

WASH IT ALL AWAY Five Finger Death Punch

K.CHURKO.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH (1. MOODY, Z.BATHORY,J.HOOK,J.S.HEYDE, K.CHURKO) PROSPECT PARK

19

14

23

23

26

LA DEVOTEE

J.SINCLAIR (B.URIE,M.KIBBY,J.SINCLAIR)

Panic! At The Disco

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

15

10

14

27

0

THE SOUND The 1975

M.CROSSEY,G.DANIEL,M.HEALY (M.HEALY,G.DANIEL,A.HANN,R.S.MACDONALD) DIRTY HIT/INTERSCOPE

14

3

36

l

28

THE LIGHT

K.CHURKO (DISTURBED)

Disturbed

REPRISE/WARNER BROS.

18

15

42

35

0

TRIP SWITCH 1

J.EMERY (J.LANGRIDGE-BROWN,D.CRAIK,C.MASON,J.EMERY,J.IRVIN)

Slothing But Thieves

RCA

26

11

46

30

30

START A RIOT

S.KOZMENIUK (M.NELSON,S.KOZMENIUK,T.S.CLARK)

BANNERS

ISLAND/REPUBLIC

30

7

31

36

31

THANK GOD FOR GIRLS

J.SINCLAIR (R.CUOMO,A.GOOSE,C.M.BALZER,B.BALZER,B.PETTI)

Weezer

WEEZER/CRUSH MUSIC

13

14

28

31

32

CRAZY=GENIUS

J.SINCLAIR (B.URIE.S.HOLLANDER, J.SINCLAIR)

Panic! At The Disco

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

28

3

27

28

33

HOUSE OF MEMORIES

J.SINCLAIR (B.URIE, WHITE SEA, J.SINCLAIR)

Panic! At The Disco

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

27

3

49

0

34

SAINT CECILIA

FOO FIGHTERS (FOO FIGHTERS)

Foo Fighters

ROSWELL/RCA

33

7

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35

DITMAS Mumford & Sons

J.FORD (MUMFORD & SONS) GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

35

4

36

SPIRITS The Strumbellas

D.SCHIFFMAN (S.WARD,D.RITTER,J.DRURY,D.JAMES,I.RITCHIE,J.HEMBREY,B.PICKETT,J.SETTERINGTON) GLASSNOTE

36

2

29

34

37

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE DIRTY

J.SINCLAIR (B.URIE,L.PRITCHARD,J.SINCLAIR)

Panic! At The Disco

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

29

3

34

37

38

GOLDEN DAYS

J.SINCLAIR (B.URIE.S.HOLLANDER, J.SINCLAIR)

Panic! At The Disco

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

34

3

47

43

0

MESSAGE MAN

T.ANDERSON (T.JOSEPH)

twenty one pilots

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

35

15

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THE LESS 1 KNOW THE BETTER

K.PARKER (K.PARKER)

Tame Impala

MODULAR/INTERSCOPE

36

8

50

0

41

NEARLY FORGOT MY BROKEN HEART

B.O'BRIEN (C.CORNELL)

Chris Cornell

UME

18

20

17

33

42

LAZARUS

D.BOWIE, T.VISCONTI (D.BOWIE)

David Bowie

ISO/COLUMBIA

3

4

RE-ENTRY

0

EVERGLOW Coldplay

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8

7

45

40

44

NIGHTLIGHT

JACKNIFE LEE (SILVERSUN PICKUPS, G.LEE)

Silversun Pickups

NEW MACHINE/Q PRIME

29

15

RE-ENTRY

0

DANCING ON GLASS

J.P.GROBLER.C.ZANE (J.P.GROBLER.T.PAGNOTTA)

St. Lucia

NEON GOLD/COLUMBIA

32

2

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SAVE TODAY Seether

B.O’BRIEN (S.MORGAN, SEETHER) THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY/CMG

44

5

48

45

47

GONER

R.REED (T.JOSEPH)

twenty one pilots

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

37

10

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48

SOUND & COLOR

B.MILLS.ALABAMA SHAKES (ALABAMA SHAKES)

Alabama Shakes

ATO

12

10

NEW

0

10,000 EMERALD POOLS

KENNEDY (G.BORNS.J.HERKEL)

BORNS

REZIDUAL/INTERSCOPE

49 1

RE-ENTRY

0

HAPPY SONG Bring Me The Horizon

O.SYKES.J.FISH (O.SYKES,M.S.NICHOLLS,M.KEAN,L.D.MALIA,J.WEINHOFEN) COLUMBIA

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18

DREAM THEATER The Astonishing i

ROADRUNNER/AG

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Let Me Get By

SWAMP FAMILY/FANTASY/CONCORD

1

DAVID BOWIE Blackstar

ISO/COLUMBIA

4

PANIC! AT THE DISCO Death Of A Bachelor

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

3

TWENTY ONE PILOTS# Blurryface

FUELED BY RAMEN/AG

38

COLDPLAY A Head Full Of Dreams 9

PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG

MEGADETH

T-BOY/UME

Dystopia

GRATEFUL DEAD Dave’s Picks, Vol. 17: 7/19/1974

GRATEFUL DEAD/RHINO

DISTURBED

REPRISE/WARNER BROS.

Immortalized

ALABAMA SHAKES Sound & Color

Don't You

ST. LUCIA Matter

NEON GOLD/COLUMBIA

NATHANIEL RATELIFF &THE NIGHT SWEATS Nathaniel Rateliff...

STAX/CONCORD

Love Stuff

ELLE KING#

RCA

SOUNDTRACK A Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1

MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD

VARIOUS artists NOW That’s What I Call Rock

UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC/LEGACY

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH GotYourSix

PROSPECT PARK

BLOC PARTY

INFECTIOUS/BMG

BASEMENT

RUN FOR COVER

Hymns

Promise Everything

DAVID BOWIE Nothing Has Changed.

ISO/COLUMBIA/LEGACY

FALL OUT BOY # American Beauty / American Psycho

DCD2/ISLAND

41/2

STEVEN WILSON

KSCOPE

SHINEDOWN

ATLANTIC/AG

CAGE THE ELEPHANT Tell Me I’m Pretty

DSP/RCA

Threat To Survival

AVANTASIA

STARWATCH/NUCLEAR BLAST

Ghostlights

ALTERNATIVE AIRPLAY 1

LAST THIS TITLE

WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

Artist WKS.ON
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ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME Coldplay

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11

12

15
14

16

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23

30

MESS AROUND Cage The Elephant

DSP/RCA

15

STRESSED OUT twenty one pilots

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

26

FIRE AND THE FLOOD Vance Joy

F-STOP/ATLANTIC

25

MOUNTAIN AT MY GATES Foals

TRANSGRESSIVE/WARNER BROS.

28

FIRST Cold War Kids

DOWNTOWN

45

TRIP SWITCH Nothing But Thieves

RCA

14

UNSTEADY X Ambassadors

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE

17

ROOTS Imagine Dragons

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE

22

RENEGADES X Ambassadors

KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE

42

THANK GOD FOR GIRLS Weezer

WEEZER/CRUSH MUSIC

15

EX’S & OH’S Elle King

RCA

40

MAGNETS Disclosure Feat. Lorde

METHOD/PMR/CAPITOL

17

saint CECILIA Foo Fighters

ROSWELL/RCA

10

DITMAS Mumford & Sons

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE

12

RIDE twenty one pilots

FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

4

SPIRITS The Strumbellas

GLASSNOTE

4

VICTORIOUS Panic! At The Disco

DCD2/FUELED BY RAMEN/RRP

17

HIGH DIVE Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness

CRUSH MUSIC/VANGUARD/CMG

18

GENGHIS KHAN Miike Snow

DOWNTOWN/ATLANTIC

8

GONE JR JR

WARNER BROS.

19

KISS THIS The Struts

FUTURE RECORDS/FREESOLO/INTERSCOPE

11

UNDER THE INFLUENCE Elle King

RCA

8

rra walking on a DREAM Empire Of The Sun

THE SLEEPY JACKSON/VIRGIN/ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL

2

GIVE ME A TRY The Wombats

14TH FLOOR/BRIGHT ANTENNA/ADA

GG

An

Astonishing’

Debut

Dream Theater's The

Astonishing arrives as the
prog-metal five-piece's first
No. 1 on Top Rock Albums,
as the band's 13th studio
set starts with 30,000
copies sold, according to
Nielsen Music. Previously,
the rockers (above) peaked
as high as No. 2, with
2009's Black Clouds &

Silver Linings and 201 Ts
A Dramatic Turn of Events.
The Astonishing also marks
Dream Theater's third No. 1
on Hard Rock Albums,
following Black Clouds &
Silver Linings and 201 3's
self-titled record.

On the Alternative airplay
chart, Coldplay notches
its third No. 1 as "Adventure
of a Lifetime" rises 2-1.

It follows prior leaders
"Viva La Vida" (two weeks,
beginning Aug. 30, 2008)
and "Paradise" (Dec. 13,
2011). "Adventure" rebounds
for a sixth week atop
Triple A airplay and hits a
new high on the Billboard
Hot 100 (45-36). The song
should surge on the Feb. 27
Hot 100 after Coldplay
performed it at the Pepsi
Super Bowl 50 Halftime
Show, also featuring
Beyonce and Bruno Mars,
Feb. 7.

Speaking of bands with
Triple A No. Is to their
credit, The Lumineers
return with "Ophelia," new
on Rock Airplay at No. 39,
with 1.6 million in audience
(after less than three days
of airplay). The folk-rock
trio's sophomore album,
Cleopatra, is due April 8;
its self-titled 2012 debut
yielded the twin eight-week
Triple A No. Is "Ho Hey"
(also a No. 3 Hot 100 hit)
and "Stubborn Love" and
has sold 1.7 million copies.

— Kevin Rutherford

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IN THE NIGHT The Weeknd

A.PAYAMI.MAX MARTIN, THE WEEKND (A.TESFAYE.A.BALSHE.MAX MARTIN, S.KOTECHA.P.SVENSSON.A.PAYAMI) XO/REPUBLIC

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HOTLINE BUNG A Drake

NINETEEN85 (A.GRAHAM.P. JEFFERIES.T.THOMAS) YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

1 27

DON’T Bryson Tiller

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4 28

JUMPMAnA Drake & Future

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THE HILLS A The Weeknd

MANO.ILLANGELO (A.TESFAYE,A.BALSHE,E.NICKERSON,ILANGELO) XO/REPUBLIC

1 37

WHITE IVERSON A Post Malone

POST MALONE (A.POST.T.M.ROBERTS JR.) REPUBLIC

5 25

SAY IT Tory Lanez

POP, TORO (D.PETERSON,A.WANSEL,A.WHITFIELD,D.HALL,N.GILBERT,G.CHAMBERS) MAD LOVE/INTERSCOPE

11 18

ANTIDOTE A TraviS Scott

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DOWN IN THE DM Yo Gotti

BEN BILLION$,SCHIFE (M. M IMS, K.M.KHALED,B.DIEHL,I. LEWIS) COCAINE MUZIK/EPIC

12 12

EXCHANGE Bryson Tiller

THE MEKANICS (B.TILLER,M.HERNANDEZ,M.JOHNSON,J.HALL) TRAPSOUL/RCA

13 16

2 PHONES Kevin Gates

MAD MAX (K.GILYARD,B.T.HAZZARD,R.WITHERSPOON JR.) BREAD WINNERS' ASSOCIATION/ATLANTIC

15 8

AGAIN Fetty Wap

PEOPLES, SHY BOOGS (W.J.MAXWELL.B.GARCIA.EJ.TIMMONS) RGF/300

12 26

BACK TO SLEEP Chris Brown

VINYLZ,A.RITTER,B0I-1DA (C.M.BROWN,A.HERNANDEZ,A.RITTER,M.SAMUELS,A.RIGO) RCA

15 10

BEST FRIEND Young Thug

RICKY RACKS (J.WILLIAMS,R.HARRELL,B.BALOGUN,S.MCNICHOL,R.ROBINSON,K.O.ASUGHA) 300/ATLANTIC

15 11

OUI Jeremih

NEEDLZ.DONUT (J.P.FELTON,K.CAIN,B.BELL,C.MARTIN) MICK SCHULTZ/DEF JAM

17 8

REALLY REALLY Kevin Gates

J.TROTH.A.GOOSE.COOK CLASSICS (K.GILYARDJ.TROTH.A.GOOSE.W.LOBBAN-BEAN) DREAD WINNERS' ASSOCIATION/ATLANTIC

20 10

BIG RINGS Drake & Future

METRO BOOMIN (A.GRAHAM.N.D.WILBURN.L.WAYNE) A-1/FREEBANDZ/Y0UNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/EPIC/REPUBLIC

16 20

WATCH OUT 2 Chainz

FKI (T.EPPS.T.M.ROBERTS JR.) DEF JAM

19 11

$AVE DAT MONEY Lil Dicky Feat. Fetty Wap & Rich Homie Quan

MONEY ALWAYZ (D.BURD,M.WASHINGTON,D.D.LAMAR,W.J. MAXWELL) CMSN/ADA

23 20

SORRY NOT SORRY Bryson Tiller

MILLI BEATZ.TIMBALAND (B.TILLER.J.SALII.T.V.MOSLEY) TRAPSOUL/RCA

24 11

THE FIX# Nelly Featuring Jeremih

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BET YOU CAN’T DO IT LIKE ME DLOW

NUN MAJOR (D.SIMMONS) DLOW

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needed ME Rihanna

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WTF (WHERE THEY FROM) Missy Elliott Featuring Pharrell Williams

P.L.WILLIAMS (M.ELLIOTT.P.L.WILLIAMS) THE GOLD MIND/ATLANTIC

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JAM Kevin Gates Feat. Trey Songz, Ty Dolla }ign & Jamie Foxx

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ACQUAINTED The Weeknd

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BAKE SALE Wiz Khalifa Featuring Travi$ Scott

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BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE Curren$Y Feat. August Alsina & Lil Wayne

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29 5

PROMISE Kid Ink Featuring Fetty Wap

DJ MUSTARD (B.IC0LLIN5,D.MCFARLANE,N.AUDIN0,LHUGHES,W.J.MAXWELU THA ALUMNI GROUP/88 OASSIC/RCA

33 4

WATCH ME WORK Tinashe

NICNAC.M.L.KRAGEN (T.KACHINGWE,N.BALDING,M.L.KRAGEN,M.GRIFFIN) RCA

34 1

STICK TALK Future

J.LUELLEN (N.D.WILBURN.J.H.LUELLEN) A-l/FREEBANDZ/EPIC

32 14

LEAN & DABB iLoveMemphis

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RGF ISLAND Fetty Wap

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19 20

SEX WITH ME Rihanna

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1HUNNID K Camp Featuring Fetty Wap

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36 5

CALIFORNIA Colonel Loud Featuring T.I., Young Dolph & Ricco Barrino

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32 11

KISS IT BETTER Rihanna

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42 1

LA CONFIDENTIAL Tory Lanez

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33 6

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39 2

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38 2

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Gates
Gets No. 1
On Rap
Albums

Kevin Gates bows atop Rap
Albums, earning his first
No. 1 on the chart as Islah
arrives with 93,000 copies
sold in the week ending
Feb. 4, according to Nielsen
Music. The entrance marks
the rapper's fourth charting
album since his 2013 debut
and scores his best sales
week yet. Gates also has his
best week on Hot R&B/Hip-
Hop Songs, reaching a new
peak as "2 Phones" hops
20-15. "Really Really" also
jumps (27-20), while "Jam"
(featuring Trey Songz, Ty
Dolla Sign and Jamie Foxx)
becomes his fourth charting
hit, at No. 29.

Meanwhile, Rihanna
claims the Hot Shot Debut
on Top R&B/Hip-Hop
Albums as Anti starts at
No. 1 with 124,000 copies
sold (while concurrently
soaring 27-1 on the
Billboard 200 with 166,000
equivalent album units). The
wide commercial release
on Jan. 29 spurs four album
tracks onto Hot R&B/Hip-
Hop Songs. "Needed Me"
leads the debuts, entering
at No. 27, and collects
the most sales logged
among the debuts (29,000
downloads). The track is
followed by "Sex With Me"
(No. 38), "Kiss It Better" (No.
42) and "Consideration,"
featuring SZA (No. 50),
while "Work," featuring
Drake, falls 1-2 in its second
charting week.

As "Work" slides one
spot on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop
Songs, Drake replaces
himself at No. 1 as "Summer
Sixteen" enters at the top.
Digital sales of "Summer
Sixteen" kick off with
215,000 digital downloads
in the week ending Feb. 4,
contributing the majority of
points powering the No. 1
arrival (and his No. 6 start
on the Billboard Hot 100).

He becomes only the third
act to earn two crowning
entrances on Hot R&B/
Hip-Hop Songs, following
Rihanna and The Notorious
B.I.G. —Amaya Mendizabal

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10 14

PISTEARE Banda Los Recoditos

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11 14

POR QUE ME ILUSIONASTE? Remmy Valenzuela

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12 19

HABLEMOS Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho

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7 16

VAIVEN Daddy Yankee

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7 19

DEL NEGOCIANTE Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho

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BRONCHE DE ORO La Trakalosa de Monterrey

J.A.REYNA ZUNIGA (A.AYLIN.A.NAVARRO) REMEX

18 12

COMO LO HACIA YO Ken-Y & Nicky Jam

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OBSESIONADO Farruko

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20 3

TOMEN NOTA Adriel Favela Featuring Los del Arroyo

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21 8

NO SOY UNA DE ESAS Jesse & Joy Featuring Alejandro Sanz

F.T.SMITH,J.E.HUERTA UECKE (A.SANZ.J.EDUARDO HUERTA UECKE.J.HUERTA UECKE.T.T0RRES) WARNER LATINA

22 8

TAN FACIL CNCO

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23 1

PONGAMONOS DE ACUERDO Julion Alvarez y Su Norteno Banda

J.ALVAREZ (A.OLIVAS) FONOVISA/UMLE

11 23

LAS COSAS DE LA VIDA Carlos Vives

A.CASTRO.C.VIVES (C.VIVES.A.CASTRO) GAIRA/WK/SONY MUSIC LATIN

25 10

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26 5

LA MIEL DE SU SALIVA Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga

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25 13

PERDONAME Ricky Martin

J.REYES COPELLO (Y.ROMERO.B.LUENGO.A.RAYO GIBO.R.MARTIN) SONY MUSIC LATIN

28 4

ME QUEDE CON LAS GANAS Tito “El Bambino” El Patron

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27 8

MEEMPEZOAVALER La Septima Banda

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30 2

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C.LIZARRAGA (I.CHAVEZ ESPINOZA) FONOVISA/UMLE

21 18

50 SOMBRAS DE AUSTIN Arcangel & DJ Luian

ARCANGEL (W.MENDEZ,A.SANTOS,R.PINA,L.MALAVE) PINA

32 4

HASTA QUE SE SEQUE EL MALECON Jacob Forever

JACOB FOREVER.DJ ROUMY.NANDO PRO (Y.J.CARMENATES) JACOB FOREVER

33 6

LA LLAMADA DE Ml EX Chiquito Team Band

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34 3

MAYOR QUE YO 3 Luny Tunes, Daddy Yankee, Wisin, Don Omar, Yandel

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20 15

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GANAS DE Tl Zion & Lennox

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IRONIA Mana

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33 11

QUIEN FUE Larry Hernandez

L.HERNANDEZ (M.MONTANA) SODIN/FONOVISA/UMLE

31 7

QUE CARO ESTOY PAGANDO Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho

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41 2

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R.VERDUZCO (N.TORRES) FONOVISA/UMLE

37 8

VALE LA PENA Roberto Tapia

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43 1

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44 2

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47 1

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37 6

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40 11

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Prince

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Reigns

Singer Prince Royce

scores his ninth No. 1 on
Latin Airplay, jumping 5-1
with "Culpa Al Corazon" (up
32 percent, to 13.4 million
audience impressions,
according to Nielsen Music,
in the week ending Feb. 7).
The bachata track is his
first No. 1 since "Te Robare"
topped the list in April 2014.

On the sales/airplay/
streaming hybrid Hot
Latin Songs chart, "Culpa"
reaches a new peak,
climbing 10-8 in its 12th
week and earning the
Airplay Gainer award. The
single also tops Latin Pop
Airplay (stepping 2-1),
while Royce bows at No. 37
alongside Sofia Reyes on
"Solo Yo," earning his 18th
charting track.

On Top Latin Albums,
regional Mexican group
Banda Los Recoditos
debuts at No. 1 with Me
Esta Gustando, arriving
with 4,000 copies sold in
the week ending Feb. 4,
marking its second chart-
topping set. The band
first crowned the list with
Ando Bien Pedo! in 2010.
Meanwhile, the new set's
single "Pisteare" maintains
a second straight week
at its current No. 11 peak
on Hot Latin Songs, aided
by nearly 1,000 digital
downloads and 9.2 million
audience impressions on air.

Finally, CNCO lands
the Hot Shot Debut on
Hot Latin Songs, entering
the chart at No. 23 with
the group's first single,

"Tan Facil." The boy
band was assembled on
the reality competition
series La Banda in 2015.

A 51 percent increase at
radio (to 1.1 million audience
impressions) supports the
entrance, while 296,000
domestic streams also help
push the song onto the
ranking. First-week sales
of the song reached 3,000
downloads — enough for a
No. 5 debut on Latin Digital
Songs. —Amaya Mendizabal

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THE MONKS OF NORCIA Benedict! Marian Chant From Norcia

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ANTHONY BROWN & GROUP THERAPY Everyday Jesus

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TRAVIS GREENE The hTh]

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ERICA CAMPBELL Help 2.0

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MOTOWN GOSPEL/WORD-CURB/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA

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JONATHAN MCREYNOLDS Life Music: Stage Two

TEHILLAH/LIGHT/EONE

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Maranatha! Music Top 15 Gospel Praise Hits

MARANATHAI/CAPITOL CMG

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VARIOUS ARTISTS God Cares For U: Give Him Glory

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DONALD LAWRENCE & THE TRI-CITY SINGERS The Best OL:The Millennium Collection

MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG

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JAMES HALL WAP New Era

MUSIC BLEND/EONE

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BRIAN COURTNEY WILSON Worth Fighting For

MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG

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CHARLES JENKINS & FELLOWSHIP CHICAGO Any Given Sunday

INSPIRED PEOPLE/MOTOWN GOSPEL/CAPITOL CMG

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DR. KARRY D. WESLEY PRESENTS THE ANTIOCH FELLOWSHIP... Speak To My Heart

AFMBC MEDIA

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MARVIN SAPP You Shall Live

RCA INSPIRATION/RCA

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CASEY J The Truth

MARQUIS BOONE/TYSCOT/TASEIS

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ISRAEL & NEW BREED Covered: Alive In Asia

RGM NEW BREED/RCA INSPIRATION/RCA

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REGINA BELLE The Day Life Began

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JOHN P. KEE Level Next

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Billboard #1 Gospel Hits

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Wow

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Again

Compilation WOW Gospel
2016, the 19th edition of
the annual series (which
launched in 1998), opens
at No. 1 on Top Gospel
Albums. The 38-track set
bows with 7,000 sold in
the week ending Feb. 4,
according to Nielsen
Music. Of the 19 albums,

17 have hit the summit (all
consecutively since 2000);
2006 has brought the best
starting sum: 43,000.

The WOW franchise is
unique in that the artists
featured are from the
three major gospel labels
(Motown Gospel, RCA
Inspiration and Word-Curb).
The new set includes,
among others, Tasha
Cobbs, Kirk Franklin and
Tamela Mann. "There's a
huge appetite for gospel
music, so when you pair
that with an album full of
the genre's top hits, fans
react," says RCA Inspiration
vp national sales Mark
Michel. "It's a win-win for
all the labels involved."

Concurrently on Gospel
Albums, J Moss' GFG:
Reload debuts at No. 4
(3,000). The R&B-styled
vocalist from Detroit
has notched four No. Is,
most recently 2014's
Grown Folks Gospel.

Guy Penrod's Live:
Hymns & Worship (No. 2)
and Michael W. Smith's
Hymns II: Shine on Us
(No. 3) launch on Top
Christian Albums (each
with approximately
4,000). The acts earn their
fourth and 29th top 10s,
respectively.

On Hot Gospel Songs,
Franklin's "Wanna Be
Happy?" ranks at No. 1 for a
23rd week, encompassing
its entire chart run. The
single ties 2011's "I Smile"
for his longest-ruling of four
No. Is. —Jim Asker

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HERE FOR YOU Kygo Featuring Ella Henderson

KYGO (KYGO,E.HENDERSON) ULTRA/RCA

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UNTIL YOU WERE GONE The Chainsmokers & Tritonal Feat. Emily Warren

THE CHAINSMOKERS, TRITONAL(A.TAGGART,C.CISNEROS,D.REED,E.WARREN,C.T.AUSnN,J.SCHARFF,A.WILUAMS) DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA

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GRYFFIN (GRYFFIN.J.PARKER.J.SALVAT) DARKROOM/INTERSCOPE

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SMOKE FILLED ROOM Mako

A.SEAVER (A.SEAVER.L.LIGHT) ULTRA

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THE CHAINSMOKERS (A.TAGGART.B.AMARADIO) DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA

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ALUNAGEORGE.M.RALPH (A.DEWJI-FRANCIS,G.REID,S.ROMAN,M.RALPH,A.SUTHERLAND) ISLAND/INTERSCOPE

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DON’T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF Jess Glynne

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35 3

higher PLACE Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Featuring Ne-Yo

DIMITRI VEGAS, LIKE MIKE (DIMITRI VEGAS, LIKE MIKE.S.C.SMITH) SMASH THE H0USE/CNR/3BEAT/C0MP0UND ENT./MOTOWN/CAPITOL

18 14

WORKING FOR IT ZHU X Skrillex X THEY

ZHU (S.ZHU,S.MOORE,D.JONES,D.LOVE) MIND OF A GENIUS/COLUMBIA

13 15

RED LIPS GTA Featuring Sam Bruno

J.MEJIA.M.VAN TOTH (J.MEJIA.M.VON TOTH,S.K.BRUNO,T.L.MCLAUGLIN) THREE SIX ZERO/WARNER BROS.

23 10

I’M BURNING UP Karine Hannah / Dave Aude

J.R.HARRIS (F.C.SCALONE,J.R.HARRIS,M. KAPLAN) CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

39 2

BOOM Major Lazer Feat. MOTi, Ty Dolla $ign, Wizkid & Kranium

DIPLO.BLENDER.MOTI (T.W.PENTZ,P.MECKSEPER,T.ROMME,T.GRIFFIN JR.A.I.BALOGUN.K.DONALDSON) MAD DECENT

27 7

WATERBED The Chainsmokers Featuring Waterbed

THE CHAINSMOKERS (A.TAGGART.C.MONTERMINI.C.PATERNOSTRO) DISRUPTOR

36 7

LONE DIGGER Caravan Palace

ADE BOSREDON COMBRAILLES.C.DELiPORIE.HP.DE 1A GARANDERIE.A.TOUSTOU.S.FERNANDEZ VELASCO (ADE BOSREOON COM BRAILLES.) CAFE DE LA DANSE/IE PLAN

41 5

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN Freischwimmer

S.BERNHARDT.A.LENNIX (M.G.PHILLIPS.J.E.A.PHILLIPS) DUSTY DESERT/PLANET PUNK

27 6

flesh without BLOOD Grimes

GRIMES (C.BOUCHER) 4AD/BEGGARS GROUP

18 15

GANGSTA WALK SNBRN Featuring Nate Dogg

SNBRN (K.A.CHAPMAN.N.D.HALE) ULTRA

45 1

IT’S STRANGE Louis The Child Featuring k.flay

LOUIS THE CHILD, R.HAULDREN.K.FLAY (K.FLAHERTY.F.KENNETT.D.LOUMPOURIDIS) NEXT WAVE/ULTRA

43 4

LITHIUM Athena

NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) DAUMAN

47 1

WIDE OPEN The Chemical Brothers

THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS (T.ROWLANDS,E.SIMONS,B.HANSEN) VIRGIN/FREESTYLE DUST/ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL

29 2

FALLING AWAY Seven Lions Featuring LIGHTS

J.A.MONTALVO (J.A.MONTALVO.L.POXLEITNER) REPUBLIC

49 1

SHOUT IT OUT LOUD Robin S. & DJ Escape

DJ ESCAPE.A.COLUCCIO (DJ ESCAPE.A.COLUCCIO.R.JACKSON MAYNARD) GROOVILICIOUS

24 10

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SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME

7

NEW

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THE BLACK QUEEN Fever Daydream

THE BLACK QUEEN

1

3

3

THE CHAINSMOKERS Bouquet (EP)

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15

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MELANKOLIC/KOBALT

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Ninety9lives 96: Lucky Block

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75

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METHOD/PMR/CAPITOL

Caracal

19

8

9

ALINA BARAZ & GALIMATIAS Urban Flora (EP)

ULTRA

38

12

10

MAJOR LAZER

MAD DECENT

Peace Is The Mission

36

□

11

BOB MOSES

DOMINO

Days Gone By

4

15

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JAMIE XX

YOUNG TURKS

in Colour

36

13

13

SOUNDTRACK The Martian: Songs From

20TH CENTURY FOX/COLUMBIA

10

16

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SKRILLEX & diplo Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack U

MAD DECENT/OWSLA/AG

50

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1

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WOLFGANG GARTNER

KINDERGARTEN

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1

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FANTOME

1

NEW

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ASTRALWERKS

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1

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WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG

49

18

20

POWER MUSIC WORKOUT

POWER MUSIC

55 Smash Hits! Running Remixes, Vol. 3

5

17

21

PURITY RING

4AD

Another Eternity

49

:

22

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MONSTERCAT

Monstercat: Best Of 2015

2

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YOUNG TURKS

M3LL155X (EP)

11

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15

24

25

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PRMD/ISLAND

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18

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E9 ROSES The Chainsmokers Feat. ROZES

P ;i i| DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA

□

2

SUGAR Robin Schulz Feat. Francesco Yates

TONSPIEL/AG

25

5

o

NEVER FORGET YOU Zara Larsson & MNEK

RECORD COMPANY TEN/EPIC

3

4

DESSERT Dawin

CASABLANCA/REPUBLIC

26

*

5

MIDDLE DJ Snake Feat. Bipolar Sunshine

DJ SNAKE/INTERSCOPE/IGA

16

o

BANG MY HEAD David Guetta Feat. Sia & Fetty Wap

WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG

16

5

7

LEAN ON Major Lazer & DJ Snake Feat. MO

MAD DECENT

49

NEW

o

SMOKE & RETRIBUTION Flume Feat. Vince Staples & Kucka

FUTURE CLASSIC/MOM + POP

1

R

©

MAGNETS Disclosure Feat. Lorde

METHOD/PMR/CAPITOL

20

7

10

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE Calvin Harris & Disciples

FLY EYE/COLUMBIA

29

0

©

STOLE THE SHOW Kygo Feat. Parson James

ULTRA/RCA

46

18

3

12

BE RIGHT THERE Diplo & Sleepy Tom

MAD DECENT

E

©

A SKY FULL OF STARS Coldplay

PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG

84

13

14

WHERE ARE u NOW Skrillex & Diplo With Justin Bieber

MAD DECENT/OWSLA/AG

50

8

15

HOLD MY HAND Jess Glynne

ATLANTIC/AG

39

15

16

TURN DOWN FOR WHAT DJ Snake & Lil Jon

COLUMBIA

112

14

17

NEVER BE LIKE YOU Flume Feat. Kai

FUTURE CLASSIC/MOM + POP

2

ES

©

FAST CAR Jonas Blue Feat. Dakota

JONAS BLUE/CAPITOL

3

19

©

TITANIUM David Guetta Feat. Sia

WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/WARNER BROS.

216

17

20

HEV MAMA David Guetta Feat. Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha & Afrojack

WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC/AG

56

23

21

RUNAWAY (U & l) Galantis

BIG BEAT/AG

69

24

22

YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge

INTERSCOPE/IGA

54

22

23

STAY Kygo Feat. Maty Noyes

ULTRA/RCA

9

31

©

WAKE ME UP! Avicii

PRMD/ISLAND

137

18

25

THE BUZZ Hermitude Feat. Big K.R.I.T., Mataya & Young Tapz

ELEFANT TRAKS/NETTWERK

13

Zara

Zooms,

With

MNEK

Zara Larsson (above)
and MNEK zip into the
Hot Dance/Electronic
Songs top 10 with "Never
Forget You" (12-9). The
first chart hit for both acts,
"Never" nabs top Digital
Gainer honors with 14,000
downloads sold, up 160
percent, in the tracking
week, according to Nielsen
Music, and jumps 11-3 on
Dance/Electronic Digital
Songs. The single from
former Sweden's Got
Talent champ Larsson and
Nigerian singer MNEK
(born Uzo Emenike) also
debuts at No. 25 on Dance/
Electronic Streaming
Songs, up 16 percent to
1.3 million U.S. streams.
Aiding Larsson's profile:
a newly announced ad
campaign with Clinique.

On Dance Club Songs,
rock icon Sting celebrates
his third career leader
with "Stolen Car," a duet
with French star Mylene
Farmer (2-1). Sting tells
Billboard, "I'm absolutely
thrilled and surprised. It's so
great to be No. 1, especially
on the Dance Club Songs
chart. Wow!" "Car" was
also Sting's second No. 1;
featuring Twista and
titled "Stolen Car (Take
Me Dancing)," it topped
the chart in 2004. (He first
led with "Send Your Love"
in 2003.) Retooled for
Farmer's 2015 French-pop
album Interstellaires, "Car"
is her first Dance Club
Songs leader (and entry).
"Working with Sting was
already such a gift, but to
get the love and support
of the DJ and dance
community in the U.S. is
amazing," she says. "Merci!"
Remixes from Dave Aude,
Ralphi Rosario and
Mico C, among others,
helped drive "Car" to the
summit. —Gordon Murray

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LAST THIS TITLE

WEEK WEEK | IMPRINT/PROMOTION LABEL

Artist WKS.ON
CHART

STOLEN CAR Mylene Farmer & Sting 1( )

CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE

OVER AND OVER AGAIN Nathan Sykes Feat. Ariana Grande

GLOBAL TALENT

ANOTHER LONELY NIGHT Adam Lambert

WARNER BROS.

6

HOLLOW Tori Kelly

SCHOOLBOY/CAPITOL

7

THE GIRL IS MINE 99 Souls Feat. Destiny’s Child & Brandy

RESILIENCE/COLUMBIA

5

TRUE ORIGINAL Dave Aude Feat. Andy Bell

AUDACIOUS

8

STRANDED Dirty Disco Feat. Inaya Day

DIRTY DISCO

6

ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME Coldplay 5

PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC

ALONE NO MORE Philip George And Anton Powers

3BEAT/MOTOWN/CAPITOL

7

10

MAGNETS Disclosure Feat. Lorde

METHOD/PMR/CAPITOL

10

SI

H

I’M BURNING UP Karine Hannah / Dave Aude

CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC

6

1

12

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN

DUSTY DESERT/PLANET PUNK

Freischwimmer

10

n

□

LITHIUM

DAUMAN

Athena

6

13

14

SHOUT IT OUT LOUD Robin S. & DJ Escape

GROOVILICIOUS

12

19

15

YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL

ZARION

Camille

8

B

0

ROSES The Chainsmokers Feat. ROZES

DISRUPTOR/COLUMBIA

6

10

17

SACRIFICE

PREROGATIVE

DeGrazio

9

17

18

WHEN LOVE HURTS

300/ATLANTIC/RRP

J 0 J 0

12

14

19

CRAZY BEAUTIFUL

CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE

Skylar Stecker

9

18

20

SORRY

SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/DEF JAM

Justin Bieber

13

r*i

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I’M IN LOVE WITH MY LIFE PHASES

WARNER BROS.

4

20

22

SHATTERPROOF

INNOVATION

Kwanza Jones

6

25

23

FROZEN Natty Rico Feat. Melissa Moinaro, Done & Frankie J

UPSCALE/DAUMAN

5

28

24

HIGH HORSE

Amuka & DJ JST

5

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

XL/COLUMBIA

Adele

26

BANG MY HEAD

David Guetta Feat. Sia & Fetty Wap

8

| WHAT A MUSIC/PARLOPHONE/ATLANTIC

27

FOCUS

Ariana Grande

8

REPUBLIC

28

ALIVE

MONKEY PUZZLE/RCA

Sia

5

TAKE ME BACK

BMAB

Claire Rasa

P

46 0

BE RIGHT THERE Diplo & Sleepy Tom

MAD DECENT

7

CREATION Liam Keegan Feat. Holly Lois

CARRILLO

3

LOVE IS Inas X

RGF/LOVE X

3

SOUND OF YOUR HEART Shawn Hook

KREATIVE SOUL/HOLLYWOOD

2

FLAMES Alessandro Coli

IPONE

3

higher place Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Feat. Ne-Yo

SMASH THE H0USE/CNR/3BEAT/C0MP0UND ENT./MOTOWN/CAPITOL

16

LOVE YOURSELF Justin Bieber

SCHOOLBOY/RAYMOND BRAUN/DEF JAM

2

TIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU Lady Gaga

STREAMLINE/INTERSCOPE

13

WTF (WHERE THEY FROM) Missy Elliott Feat. Pharrell Williams

THE GOLD MIND/ATLANTIC

9

LOVE MYSELF Hailee Steinfeld

REPUBLIC

15

DON’T STOP PrimoCruz

4 POWER

3

IN THE night The Weeknd

XO/REPUBLIC

2

SAME LOVE Tracy Young Feat. Karina Iglesias

FEROSH

2

HELLO Adele

XL/COLUMBIA

13

JEALOUS M.E.L.

GENERATION

1

AGE OF INNOCENCE Elephante Feat. Trouze & Damon Sharpe
zoo

11

FALL 4 U Natali Yura

N.A.T.

13

YOUTH Troye Sivan

CAPITOL

1

LOVE overdose Nikki Lund vs. North2South

DAUMAN

1

SOLID GROUND Kourtney Kelly

CHRIS YOUNG

1

CAKE BY THE OCEAN DNCE

REPUBLIC

1

2

LEGEND

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greatest weekly gains.

Album Charts

0 Recording Industry Assn, of
America (RIAA) certification
for physical shipments &
digital downloads of 500,000
albums (Gold).

A RIAA certification for
physical shipments & digital
downloads of 1 million
units (Platinum). Numeral
noted with Platinum symbol
indicates album’s multi-
platinum level.

^ RIAA certification for
physical shipments & digital
downloads of 10 million
units (Diamond). Numeral
noted with Diamond symbol
indicates album’s multi-
platinum level.

O Latin albums certification for
physical shipments & digital
downloads of 30,000 units
(Oro).

A Latin albums certification for
physical shipments & digital
downloads of 60,000 units
(Platino). Numeral noted
with Platino symbol indicates
album’s multiplatinum level.

Digital Songs Charts

0 RIAA certification for 500,000
paid downloads and on-
demand streams where 100
streams equal 1 download
(Gold).

A RIAA certification for 1
million paid downloads
and on-demand streams
where 100 streams equal
1 download (Platinum).
Numeral noted with Platinum
symbol indicates song’s
multiplatinum level.

Awards

PS (Pacesetter for largest %
album sales gain)

GG (Greatest Gainer for largest
volume gain)

DG (Digital Sales Gainer)

AG (Airplay Gainer)

SG (Streaming Gainer)

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CONCERT GROSSES

GROSS

PER TICKET PRICE(S)

ARTIST

VENUE

DATE

ATTENDANCE

CAPACITY

PROMOTER

1

$5,133,990

JENNIFER LOPEZ

$412/$214/$164/$54

THE AXIS AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD, LAS VEGAS

25,918

CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT,

JAN. 20, 22-23, 27, 29-30

SIX SELLOUTS

LIVE NATION

2

$2,940,106

BRITNEY SPEARS

$495/$179/$94/$54

THE AXIS AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD, US VEGAS

19,454

CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT,

DEC. 27-28, 30-31, JAN. 2-3

25,203 SIX SHOWS

LIVE NATION (DEC. ONLY)

3

$1,104,351

ALEJANDRO SANZ

(20,092,010 PESOS)

AUDITORIO NACIONAL, MEXICO CITY

18,766

OCESA-CIE

$58.85

JAN. 29-30

19,226 TWO SHOWS

4

$1,101,260

KEVIN HART, PLASTIC CUP BOYZ

($1,556,928 AUSTRA-

PERTH ARENA, PERTH, AUSTRALIA

13,729

LIVE NATION

LIAN) $107.97/$72.61

FEB. 3

SELLOUT

5

$937,243

VAN MORRISON, SHANA MORRISON

$249.50/$89.50

FOX THEATER, OAKLAND

5,874

ANOTHER PLANET

JAN. 18-20

THREE SELLOUTS

ENTERTAINMENT

6

$686,450

BRUNO MARS, DJ CRYKIT

$250/$150

THE CHELSEA AT THE COSMOPOLITAN, US VEGAS

3,426

C3 PRESENTS

DEC. 31

SELLOUT

7

$562,964

TOOL, PRIMUS, 3TEETH

$79.50

PENSACOLA BAY CENTER, PENSACOLA, FLA.

7,359

C3 PRESENTS

JAN. 30

7,444

8

$554,724

ELTON JOHN, TATE SHERIDAN

($770,365 AUSTRALIAN)

HORDERN PAVILION, SYDNEY

3,127

CHUGG ENTERTAINMENT

$215.95/$129.54

DEC. 17

3,194

9

$508,128

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN

$326/$140/$108/$75

THE SHOWROOM AT THE FLAMINGO, LAS VEGAS

4,814

CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT

DEC. 29-31, JAN. 1-2, 19-23, 26-30

10,983 15 SHOWS

10

$397,111

0V7 & KABAH

(7,263,392 PESOS)

AUDITORIO NACIONAL, MEXICO CITY

9,346

OCESA-CIE

$42.49

JAN. 28

9,599

11

$319,099

ADAM LAMBERT, MELANIE MARTINEZ

($455,817 AUSTRALIAN)

PALAIS THEATRE, MELBOURNE

5,179

DAINTY GROUP

$64.44/$42.54

JAN. 25-26

5,454 TWO SHOWS ONE SELLOUT

12

$311,228

GILLIAN WELCH, DAVE RAWLINGS

($432,586 AUSTRALIAN)

PAUIS THEATRE, MELBOURNE

5,618

LOVE POLICE TOURING

$55.40

FEB. 5-6

TWO SELLOUTS

13

$286,532

MAJOR LAZER

(5,213,017 PESOS)

PEPSI CENTER WTC, MEXICO CITY

7,386

OCESA-CIE

$38.79

JAN. 29

7,736

14

$251,371

TIZIANO FERRO

(€228,910)

VORST NATIONAAL, BRUSSELS

4,203

GRACIA LIVE

$71.38/$65.89

DEC. 15

4,500

15

$245,559

FOALS, DJANGO DJANGO

($340,312 AUSTRALIAN)

HORDERN PAVILION, SYDNEY

4,869

SECRET SOUNDS TOURING

$55.56

JAN. 5

5,111

16

$240,052

STATUS QUO, WILKO JOHNSON

(£160,220)

SSE HYDRO, GLASGOW, SCOTUND

3,987

LIVE NATION

$63.68/$59.18

DEC. 4

4,203

17

$239,886

CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA

(£159,193) $48.97/$37.67

EVENTIM APOLLO, LONDON

5,056

SOUNDCRASH

NOV. 28

5,097

18

$237,193

DIVERSITY

(£155,450)

EVENTIM APOLLO, LONDON

4,438

SJM CONCERTS

$151.06/$38.15

NOV. 21

6,105 TWO SHOWS

19

$235,164

DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES

$300/$59

DR. PHILLIPS CENTER, WALT DISNEY THEATER, ORLANDO

2,600

IN-HOUSE, AEG LIVE

DEC. 3

SELLOUT

20

$233,510

LULU SANTOS

(876,067 REAIS)

METROPOLITAN, RIO DE JANEIRO

8,591

T4F-TIME FOR FUN

$70.37/$10.66

NOV. 27-29

9,411 THREE SHOWS

21

$232,540

JOVANOTTI

(€214,388)

VORST NATIONAAL, BRUSSELS

4,335

GRACIA LIVE

$70.50/$59.66

DEC. 8

4,500

22

$230,444

THE AMITY AFFLICTION & A DAY TO REMEMBER

($320,827 AUSTRALIAN)

PERTH ARENA, PERTH, AUSTRALIA

4,228

LIVE NATION

$66.55/$45

DEC. 14

5,757

23

$228,879

MORRISSEY

$200/$150/$99.50/$45

THE JOINT, HARD ROCK HOTEL, LAS VEGAS

3,395

AEG LIVE

JAN. 2

SELLOUT

24

$225,740

MARTIN LAWRENCE

$200/$150/$75/$39.50

THE JOINT, HARD ROCK HOTEL, LAS VEGAS

2,757

AEG LIVE

JAN. 16

SELLOUT

25

$225,228

BILL BAILEY

(£149,325) $37.71

EVENTIM APOLLO, LONDON

5,973

PHIL MCINTYRE

DEC. 8-9

6,555 TWO SHOWS

ENTERTAINMENT

26

$224,244

THE NEW STANDARDS

$96/$31

STATE THEATRE, MINNEAPOLIS

4,859

DAVE NESS

DEC. 4-5

5,892 THREE SHOWS

27

$223,591

THE WOMBATS, LAST DINOSAURS

($306,591 AUSTRALIAN)

HORDERN PAVILION, SYDNEY

4,386

SECRET SOUNDS TOURING

$54.33

JAN. 3

5,170

28

$222,064

SHINEDOWN & BREAKING BENJAMIN, SEVENDUST

$45/$25

TIMES UNION CENTER, ALBANY, N.Y.

5,187

FRANK PRODUCTIONS, NS2,

NOV. 23

6,300

CMOORE LIVE, SLP CONCERTS

29

$220,932

TOBYMAC, COLTON DIXON, BRITT NICOLE, HOLLYN

$79.50/$28.65

BRIDGESTONE ARENA. NASHVILLE

8,340

WAY-FM

DEC. 13

9,707

30

$220,267

BRANTLEY GILBERT, CANAAN SMITH, MICHAEL RAY

$39.75/$25

HULMAN CENTER, TERRE HAUTE, IND.

5,725

FRANK PRODUCTIONS,

JAN. 30

SELLOUT

NS2, CMOORE LIVE

31

$219,891

DISCLOSURE, LION BABE, JACKMASTER

(£145,671) $43.02/$40

SSE HYDRO, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

5,497

DF CONCERTS

NOV. 26

5,649

32

$219,613

ANA TORROJA

(2,854,970 PESOS)

AUDITORIO NACIONAL, MEXICO CITY

8,016

OCESA-CIE

$27.40

NOV. 26

9,520

33

$218,432

BRANTLEY GILBERT, CANAAN SMITH, MICHAEL RAY

$39.75/$27

DOW EVENT CENTER ARENA, SAGINAW, MICH.

5,536

FRANK PRODUCTIONS,

JAN. 28

SELLOUT

NS2, CMOORE LIVE

34

$217,490

KENNY ROGERS

$35

MOHEGAN SUN ARENA, UNCASVILLE, CONN.

6,214

IN-HOUSE

DEC. 12

6,835

35

$214,808

DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES

$255/$50

VAN WEZEL PERFORMING ARTS HALL, SARASOTA, FLA.

1,693

AEG LIVE, IN-HOUSE

DEC. 2

SELLOUT

Pop Divas
Shine In
Vegas

With ticket sales reported
by Caesars Entertainment
in Las Vegas, three pop
superstars appear on the
latest Boxscore chart
based on their resident
productions in the city.
Leading at No. 1 is Jennifer
Lopez (above) with the
first box office stats
reported from her Planet
Hollywood residency, titled
All I Have, that launched
Jan. 20 with a six-show run
at the Axis Theater.

With sellout crowds at
all shows, the pop diva
raked in $5.1 million from
25,918 sold tickets. On
the heels of the opening
run, she followed with four
more performances in
early February and is set to
return to the residency with
multiple dates planned in
May and June.

Taking No. 2 on the chart
is Britney Spears with
$2.9 million in revenue
earned at the Axis Theater
for six performances of her
Piece of Me production,
now entering its third
year at Planet Hollywood.
Her six-show engagement
to close out 2015 and
ring in the new year drew
19,454 fans.

Since her residency
began at the end of 2013,
the diva has racked up
$71 million in sales at
135 concerts, with an
attendance count topping
486,000.

Finally, pop icon Olivia
Newton-John lands at
No. 9 with sales reported
from Summer Nights, her
Las Vegas residency at
the Flamingo showroom
that was extended last fall
after a year-and-a-half-long
run. Featuring hits from
her four-decade career, the
star's shows are scheduled
at the casino through the
end of 2016. —Bob Allen

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The New Jersey act solidified its standing among the titans of
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“THE HARDWORKING, HARD-TOURING
pop-metal outfit has an exceptionally strong
album that should take the band all the
way Billboard reported in its Sept. 6, 1986,
issue. And the forecast for Bon Jovi’s third
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accurate: The set became the rockers’ first
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seller (12 million copies sold in the United

States, according to the RIAA).

The album likewise established the New
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to date (of four).

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in 2016. “I have a lot of material to write
about,” Jon Bon Jovi told Billboard in 2015.
“The new record is something we are going
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